Working on the frontline to help exploited women requires patience and the sensitivity to move at someone else’s speed.
Humanitarian Aid
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How a rural Catholic Church is serving survivors of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Almost two months after the devastating storm, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church is bringing food, water and blessings to the residents of Las Marias, Puerto Rico.
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How Catholic university students are responding in Puerto Rico
Students “have lifted up this whole university, challenging us to go out to the margins, like Pope Francis asks.”
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How will history judge ‘Australia’s Guantanamo’ for refugees?
There is little question that what the government is doing is not only illegal but inhumane and unnecessary.
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Catholic dairy farmer fears Puerto Rico’s milk industry may be decimated
Way up in the highlands of north central Puerto Rico, in an area severely damaged by Hurricane Maria, lies an untold story of an imminent economic catastrophe: the potential decimation of the island’s milk industry.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
After the California fires, the Diocese of Santa Rosa finds community among the ruins
Upward of 3,000 buildings have been destroyed just in Santa Rosa, a city of 175,000 people.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: War and climate change cause hunger; stop treating it as an incurable illness
“The relation between hunger and migrations can only be faced if we go to the roots of the problem.”
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Catholic schools among casualties of California wildfires
Bishop Vasa called on all Catholics of the diocese to help their brothers and sisters who “have been severely impacted by the devastating fires and are in immediate need of your prayers.”
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After Mexico’s earthquakes, ‘faith opens doors to psychological care’
“Most survivors suffer from severe anxiety or guilt.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Sister Norma Pimentel: Be an ‘instrument of faith’ for migrants and refugees
In an interview with America, Sister Normal Pimental talks about her involvement with Pope Francis’ “Share the Journey” campaign.