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Caritas helps resettle war victims

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (UCAN) – Caritas, the Church’s social service agency, is helping war victims in the east build new lives for themselves by providing them with houses and loans.
About 450 families from Ayithiyamalai and Unnichchai villages, near Batticaloa, have been resettled after the 26-year civil war ended for the eastern front in 2008.
Most of them [...]

Catholics, Buddhists help Cyclone Nargis survivors

YANGON (UCAN) – A Catholic priest and Buddhist monk are praising joint interreligious efforts to help villagers in a remote Myanmar village recover from Cyclone Nargis.
Father Benedict Htay Lwin from Yangon archdiocese, together with Venerable Wai Pon La, say interfaith cooperation has been vital in helping Buddhist villagers in Naung-lein-gone rebuild their lives in the wake [...]

Caritas spotlights the needs of disabled

PHNOM PENH (UCAN) — Caritas Asia has agreed on a new strategy that will address the needs of disabled people in every program it runs, regional coordinator Father Bonnie Mendes says.
A recent policy-setting meeting in the Cambodian capital also called for people to lobby for disabled people’s rights whenever they could.
“The government makes promises but [...]

Caritas plans US$2.6m Nargis program

DEDAYE, Myanmar (UCAN) — International and local Church agencies are continuing to provide material and psychological support for victims of Cyclone Nargis, which struck the country in 2008.
Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic Church’s social service agency, has appealed for more than US$2.6 million to help 85,000 people kickstart their livelihoods in 2010.
Caritas says it has so far [...]