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By Caritas Jerusalem Caritas Jerusalem has donated an intensive care unit ambulance to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. On December 20th 2009 His Beatitude Msg. Fuad Twal, President of Caritas Jerusalem, presented the ambulance as part of a response to the needs of the health sector in Gaza. Mrs. Suhaila Tarazi, general manager of Al Ahli Arab hospital, [...]
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Merry Christmas everyone. To mark the end of a long and exhausting year, these are a collection of Caritas web initiatives that have caught our attention over the last couple of weeks as clever, attractive, and worth celebrating. The Top Ten 10. Did you miss this? 9. A new website with Caritas Uruguay 8. On photographic assignment for [...]
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Rich countries’ words must match deeds on emission reductions Catholic development agencies call for integrity on final day of Copenhagen climate talks CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis, the largest development alliance in the world, say that the leak late yesterday of a UN report that proved that there is a significant gap between developed country rhetoric and their [...]
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By Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio, Head of the Holy See Delegation This conference reiterates how long it takes to create the clear and firm political will necessary to adopt common binding measures and adequate budgets for an effective mitigation and adaptation to ongoing climate change. Is this political will slow in taking shape due to the [...]
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As all will have no doubt gathered from the media coverage, the COP has taken a number of unforeseen turns since the weekend, some predictable, some less so. Discussions were stalled on Monday for a number of hours when African negotiators protested at the proposal by the Danish Presidency to focus the remaining technical negotiations before [...]
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Caritas has launched a US $12 million appeal to directly help 350,000 people in Sudan’s Darfur region, including 240,000 who have lost there homes.
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Caritas has launched an emergency appeal to support the survivors of Myanmar’s Cyclone Nargis and to reduce their vulnerability to future disasters.
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Caritas is appealing for a further US$3.6 million (EUR 2,510,000) to help people in Indonesia in the long-term following the Padang earthquake.
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CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis, the world's largest alliance of aid and development agencies, say the proposed‘Copenhagen Accord’ is a weak and morally reprehensible deal which will spell disaster for millions of the world’s poorest people.
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Caritas is making an urgent appeal for US$3,262,381 (234,236.72 euro) to help people rebuild their lives and homes in Sri Lanka following the end of its decades-long war.
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