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Tag Archives: Famine

Prayers for 31,000 Fleeing Famine in South Sudan

Mar 6, 2017 Brian Kelly Reply

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 →

Prayer Need: Hunger in Nigeria Is Catastrophic, Millions Starving, Mostly Children

Sep 9, 2016 Brian Kelly Reply

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 →

Millions Face Starvation Due to Civil War

Jul 16, 2014 Brian Kelly Reply

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 →

Famine Relief Org Calls for End to Embargo on Gaza

Nov 27, 2012 Brian Kelly 1

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.

Famine Forecast Covers Huge Area of Africa and Parts of Mid-East

Oct 12, 2012 Brian Kelly Reply

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 →

Ukranian Priest and Professor Coauthor New Book on 1932-33 Forced Famine in Ukraine

Nov 18, 2011 Brian Kelly 2

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 →

One Fourth of Somalia’s 9.1 Million People Have Left Homes in Search of Food

Aug 2, 2011 Brian Kelly Reply

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.

For Third Time Pope Calls Upon All Nations to Send Aid to East Africa

Aug 1, 2011 Brian Kelly Reply

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.

Pope Benedict Urging All Nations to Help East Africa’s Starving Refugees

Jul 21, 2011 Brian Kelly Reply

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.

Catholic Aid Agency Appeals for Donations as Ten Million Face Starvation in East Africa

Jul 20, 2011 Brian Kelly 2

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 →

Africa: 400,000 Head for Kenyan Refugee Camp

Jul 14, 2011 Brian Kelly Reply

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 →

Pope Remembers Ukrainian Victims of Stalin’s Forced Famine

Nov 24, 2008 Brian Kelly 1

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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