Canada’s Development and Peace has launched impressive public education projects and worked on advocacy campaigns and thousands of economic and community development projects on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable people.
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Bishops pray for ‘safety, care’ of all hit hard by two massive hurricanes
U.S. Catholic bishops react to recent hurricanes and urge Catholics to respond generously.
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Aid workers see humanitarian crisis as Rohingya flee to Bangladesh
Members of Myanmar’s minority Rohingya group face violence even as they flee the country as the humanitarian situation turns desperate.
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In Florida shelter, exhausted people wait out Hurricane Irma
Strangers from around the country find themselves facing Hurricane Irma together in a High School turned shelter.
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Church leaders pray for victims of Mexican earthquake
Church leaders react to the massive 8.1 magnitude earthquake which struck off of the Mexican coast, leaving death and destruction in Guatemala and southern Mexico.
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Parish life still thrives at flood-damaged Houston church
Hit hard by flooding, a Catholic parish in Houston surveys the damage and continues to practice their faith.
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Irma cuts deadly path in Caribbean as church officials prepare response
Hurricane Irma leaves a trail of devastation as Church leaders respond to the crisis.
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As U.S. focuses on Harvey and Irma, Catholic Relief Services works on world’s other crises
Remembering the church’s call to solidarity, a C.R.S. official asks only that as Americans reach out to assist their fellow citizens they continue to remember “our brothers and sisters around the world who are also in need.”
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After Harvey, Texas towns try to pick up the pieces
Residents of coastal towns return to find toppled RV’s, convenience stores without roofs and furniture scattered over the road.
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Catholic faith moves Houston’s ‘Mattress Mack’ to shelter Hurricane Harvey victims
A mattress store owner, motivated by his Catholic faith, opened his business to evacuees from Hurricane Harvey and quickly became one of the crisis’ heroes and a symbol of Houston’s resilience.