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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.Founded in 1943 by the Bishops of the United States, the agency provides assistance to 130 million people in more than 110 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
CCUSA's Disaster Operations coordinates the Catholic Church's response to disasters in the United States and grants relief funds to local Catholic Charities agencies to support their relief efforts. Catholic Charities has responded to disasters across the country, including the attacks on September 11, [7] Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, [8] the ...
Secours Catholique (French for ' Catholic relief '), also known as Secours Catholique – Caritas France, [3] [4] [5] is a French not-for-profit organisation. It works to alleviate problems of poverty and exclusion of all sections of the population and seeks to promote social justice. Secours catholique is a service of the Catholic Church in ...
Càritas Andorrana is an institution of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urgell of which the entire country of Andorra forms a part. [4]Each of the seven parishes of Andorra have their own parish Caritas ("Càritas parroquial") which together make up the federation that is Caritas Andorra: Caritas Andorra la Vella, Caritas Canillo, Caritas Encamp, Caritas Escaldes–Engordany, Caritas La Massana ...
The North Sea flood of 1953 were a major emergency of the 1950s in which Caritas Internationalis coordinated the Catholic relief efforts. Throughout the rest of the 1950s, new national Caritas organisations were founded and joined Caritas Internationalis, including Caritas Hong Kong in 1953, [ 34 ] Caritas Syria in 1954, [ 35 ] and Caritas ...
The San Francisco 49ers on Monday suspended linebacker De'Vondre Campbell for the final three games of the regular season for refusing to play Thursday night against the Los Angeles Rams.. Niners ...
In 2022, CNEWA provided €0.9 million for Caritas Ukraine, a Ukrainian Catholic not-for-profit and humanitarian relief organisation. [24] As of February 2024, CNEWA allocated $5.8 million in emergency funds over the past year to support church-led relief efforts in Ukraine and neighboring countries accommodating individuals displaced by the ...
In 1993, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the American branch of the Caritas Internationalis confederation, recruited Zevart Nadjarian to help establish a Caritas office in Armenia. In October 1994, Nadjarian and Robert Quinlan from CRS's Geneva office visited the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe , based in Gyumri .