“It’s an avalanche of disasters, one disaster after another disaster.”
Humanitarian Aid
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis launches Caritas campaign to assist victims of forced migration
The Caritas campaign is calling for a week of prayer and action for the world’s 66 million forcibly displaced people, running from Oct. 7 through 13.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
While volunteers rebuild Mexican towns, a bishop accuses the government of stealing credit
The government response in Mexico City has been swift, but surrounding towns devastated by last week’s earthquake are frustrated by the slow arrival of aid.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Mexicans’ response to quake like ‘hopping on a torrent of solidarity’
Thousands of volunteers and rescue squads have flooded Mexico City, where workers, electricians, nurses, students and others work side by side to save the last victims and bring relief to the survivors.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
As U.N. General Assembly convenes, a progress report on world’s refugees
This year the Grand Bargain on refugees seems increasingly fragile.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Mexico’s earthquakes are a chance for cross-border solidarity. How will we respond?
The earthquake feels like yet another crisis tearing at our transnational families. The earthquake was a natural disaster, but the many ways American society fails to value the lives of foreigners, of immigrants, of its own citizens, because of their skin color or their Latino heritage is a disaster of our own making.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
With prayer, Catholics in Puerto Rico deal with Hurricane Maria’s wrath
When the hurricane hit the island with winds of up to 155 miles per hour, it tore out cables, roofs from homes and buildings, uprooted palm trees and even bent a cross anchored to a cement post at the entrance of a Jesuit school.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
How church-based charities are providing earthquake relief in Mexico
In the aftermath of two earthquakes in the span of two weeks in Mexico church-based relief agencies have been on the ground providing food, shelter and repairs.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Mexico enthralled then furious as earthquake survivor story turns out to be fake
Reports of a girl trapped in the rubble of a collapsed school in Mexico City captured the world’s attention, but the story was created by bad journalistic and government practices.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Bishop, Caritas staffer say situation in Mexico serious, much aid needed
All the dioceses in Mexico were collecting food, water and other necessities for victims of the quakes and were seeking economic support from inside and outside the country.