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October 20, 2014

Bishop says Ebola makes Liberians feel 'God has forsaken us again'

Liberians wait outside the John F. Kennedy Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 18. Pope Francis called for prayers and concrete help for the thousands of people affected by the deadly Ebola virus.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - A Liberian bishop unable to attend the Synod of Bishops on the family has urged his fellow bishops to use their influence to help West African families in their enormous suffering caused by Ebola.

Published in International
October 10, 2014

Ebola frontlines still in Africa, not U.S.

Church workers say hunger and panic are major problems in Liberia and Sierra Leone as neighbourhoods are sealed off in an effort to curb the spread of ebola.

As the ebola death toll in West Africa surpassed 3,300, North American media were reporting a single, isolated case in Dallas with minute-by-minute, 24-hour coverage. For the Caritas network the focus is on Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone where fragile, underfunded health care systems are faced with daily deaths and new infections. 

Published in International
August 25, 2014

Panic, hunger spread among quarantined West Africans in Ebola areas

Liberian police in protective clothing control residents of Monrovia's West Point neighborhood waiting for food rations to be handed out Aug. 21. Church workers say hunger and panic are major problems in Liberia and Sierra Leone as neighborhoods are seal ed off in an effort to curb the spread of Ebola.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Hunger and panic are spreading among people unable to work because of restrictions aimed at containing the spread of Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone, say church workers in West Africa.

Published in International
August 13, 2014

Liberian health system suffers from strain of Ebola

Liberian children are encouraged to wash their hands as part of an Ebola sensitization program in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 5. The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has risen to at least 932, the World Health Organizati on said Aug. 6.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Liberia's health system is in "complete shambles," a Church aid agency said, as the death of a Spanish priest brought to six the number of caregivers at a Catholic-run hospital in the capital of Monrovia who have died of Ebola in August.

Published in International