Emergencies news

When emergencies happen, CAFOD responds. Read our latest updates here.

Rohingya Crisis: Reaching vulnerable families

19 November 2018

There are now over 700,000 mainly Rohingya refugees who have reached the refugee camps of Bangladesh's Cox’s Bazar, escaping violence in neighbouring Myanmar.

A mother holds a baby in Yemen suffering from malnutrition, the UN warns that Yemen faces worst famine for 100 years.

Yemen Crisis Q&A

13 November 2018

Three years of conflict have pushed Yemen, already one of the world’s poorest countries, to the brink of catastrophe.

Caritas Aid workers delivering aid after the Indonesia Tsunami

More than 2,100 people have been killed and thousands of homes have been destroyed after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake, which triggered a tsunami, struck Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, on Friday 28 September. Our Caritas aid workers are already on the ground responding to communities in need.