South Sudan is heavily Catholic, 37 percent. Agenzia Fides: Half of the expected number of refugees from South Sudan have already arrived in Sudan in the first two months of the year. The statement comes from the Office of the United … Continue reading
APNews: The whimpers from skeletally thin babies too weak to cry are a harbinger of worse things to come: A quarter of the children lucky enough to make it to this emergency feeding center are dying. They are the latest victims … Continue reading
CatholicOnline: The awful situation in South Sudan continues to worsen as time runs out for millions of people at risk of starvation. Painfully oblivious to the peril, two warring factions continue to vie for power while aid workers scramble to … Continue reading
EWTNews: [Oxfam] also stated that since the blockade began five years ago, “a third of the companies in Gaza have closed and 80% of the population is now in need of aid.” Read full report here.
Catholic Online: The sub-Saharan and African states seem to have the greatest food insecurity. The cause are low crop yields which have caused food prices to rise some six percent in July 2012 alone. Food price forecasts for 2013 are … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: Father Athanasius McVay, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest in Canada, and Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada, have coauthored the newly published book The Holy See and the Holodomor: Documents from the Vatican … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: One fourth of Somalia’s 9.1 million people have left their homes in search of food, according to a report prepared by Caritas Somalia. Read more here.
Catholic Culture: For the 3rd consecutive week, Pope Benedict XVI used his Sunday audience on July 31 to call the world’s attention to a devastating famine in the Horn of Africa. Read full appeal here.
CNS: Pope Benedict XVI urged the international community to deliver urgent humanitarian aid to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, especially Somalia, where tens of thousands have fled drought and famine. Read more here.
CNA reports: The U.K.-based Catholic Agency for Overseas Development is appealing to the world on behalf of 10 million East Africans facing starvation and death due to a severe drought. Read full report here. More details updating the mounting seriousness … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: Fleeing the worst regional drought in six decades, some 400,000 people have left Somalia and other nations of the Horn of Africa for a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Thousands are now arriving every day at the camp, … Continue reading
It is beyond our imagination. To die of starvation. Such was the sacrifice of three million Ukrainians and many other peoples under the satanic regime of Joseph Stalin. It took only one year. “And how many divisions has the Pope?” … Continue reading
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