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January 20, 2020

Catholic groups condemn reconstruction failure 10 years after Haiti's killer quake

Catholic groups condemn reconstruction failure 10 years after Haiti's killer quake

Catholic organizations and their allies in Haitian civil society are condemning their own government and the international community on the 10th anniversary of the 2010 earthquake that left the country in ruins. 

Published in International
June 5, 2015

Pope Francis warns mission societies against becoming NGOs

Pope Francis elevates the Eucharist during Mass outside the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome June 4. Pope Francis reminded the work of mission societies belongs to Jesus and reducing a group to functionalism will lead to ruin.

VATICAN CITY - The mission-oriented agencies of the Church must guard against operating like nongovernmental organizations, empty of Christ's presence, Pope Francis said.

Published in Vatican
April 30, 2015

Mother of one of 43 “disappeared” Mexican students testifies on Hill

Demonstrators rally outside St. Anne's Catholic Church in Detroit to protest the September 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a teachers college in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. The students from Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College were app arently arrested by local police who handed them over to a drug gang.

OTTAWA - A Mexican group that includes the mother of one of 43 students who disappeared from a teacher-training college in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, is asking Canada to take Mexico off its list of safe countries.

Published in Canada
December 6, 2014

A decade after tsunami, Indonesians still wrestle with trauma

Nyak Minah stands in front of a store she added to the front of her home in Kubang Gajah, Indonesia, Nov. 4. Ten years after a giant tsunami swept across South Asia, survivors across the region still wrestle with the trauma that lingers long after the wa ter receded from thousands of seaside towns and villages.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Ten years after a giant tsunami swept across South Asia, survivors across the region still wrestle with the trauma that lingers long after the water receded from thousands of seaside towns and villages.

Published in International
December 6, 2012

Fantino confirms what NGOs had long suspected

International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino says Canada must change its approach on funding overseas development. He said needy countries must be enabled to help themselves.

OTTAWA - Non-governmental organizations and charities are finding themselves starved for funds as Canada shifts to a trade–oriented approach to overseas development.

Published in Canada