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Alongside 200 other UK charities, CAFOD is celebrating Remember a Charity Week from 9-15 September.

With support from CAFOD, Caritas Bangladesh is providing essential services including water and sanitation, nutrition, shelter, protection and some primary healthcare for pregnant mothers and children.

CAFOD has commented on the famine declared in one of Darfur's largest displacement sites: Zamzam camp near Al Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur, Sudan.

As the Paris 2024 Olympics takes place, we’re taking inspiration from one of the many reasons Pope Francis celebrates sport: it can help break down barriers.

Thanks to generous supporters like you, we were able to respond rapidly to the devastating flooding in Libya caused by Storm Daniel in September 2023.

This move is a critical step towards supporting the education, health and wellbeing of Palestinian refugees who rely on UNRWA's essential services.

The new UK government must act to tackle the interconnected crises making global poverty worse.

As we cheer on England at Euro 2024, Caritas Ukraine is hosting football games for vulnerable children and young adults affected by war.

Afghanistan has been hit by devastating floods that worsen the humanitarian crisis in one of the world's poorest countries.

In a message setting out the vision for the 2025 Year of Jubilee, Pope Francis said cancelling debt is "a matter of justice" for countries that are unable to repay.

With support from CAFOD, Caritas Bangladesh is providing essential services including water and sanitation, nutrition, shelter, protection and some primary healthcare for pregnant mothers and children.

CAFOD has commented on the famine declared in one of Darfur's largest displacement sites: Zamzam camp near Al Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur, Sudan.

Thanks to generous supporters like you, we were able to respond rapidly to the devastating flooding in Libya caused by Storm Daniel in September 2023.

Afghanistan has been hit by devastating floods that worsen the humanitarian crisis in one of the world's poorest countries.

With your support, we can continue to provide practical help to families in Gaza right now.

We have launched an emergency appeal for funding to help the millions of people in Sudan who have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict and now face a new threat - hunger.

Although the war in Syria is not making the headlines, it has not ended. It has left 90% of Syrians in poverty and in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.

Your generous contributions to CAFOD's Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal have reached thousands of vulnerable people, helping them to survive and rebuild their lives.

Your donations to our Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal have enabled local partners to respond quickly and reach thousands of people with emergency assistance and the tools to start rebuilding their lives. 

CAFOD is working with a local Caritas sister agency that is responding in the south of Yemen, supporting families facing extreme poverty, disease, malnutrition and the common threat of violence.

A community near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia have come together to clear the tons of waste that washed up on their doorstep.

The agreement to "transition away from fossil fuels" is the first time governments have committed to move away from fossil fuels in more than thirty years of UN climate meetings.

In his message at the summit in the United Arab Emirates, the Pope called on governments to put the global common good ahead of national interests.

The COP28 climate talks have begun with countries agreeing on the first day of the UN summit how a loss and damage fund will operate.

Add your voice to Pope Francis' call for leaders at the UN climate summit to take the action we need to tackle the climate crisis.

The new apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum follows eight years after Laudato Si’, in which Pope Francis called for all people to care for our common home.

Speaking on BBC World News, CAFOD’s Head of Advocacy, Neil Thorns, said “the UK is leaving its international reputation in tatters”.

Shell and BP were presented with mock 'blue plaques' to remind the fossil fuel companies how history will judge their contribution to the climate crisis.

Poverty and the threat of violence cast a shadow over childhood in Colombia but one woman is training young people to advocate for their communities, work for peace and safeguard the Amazon.