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Study Links Catholic Relief Services to Contraception, Abortion Programs in Africa

Mar 13, 2024

Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the humanitarian arm of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has been engaged in contraception and abortion programs in some African countries, a joint study by the Lepanto Institute (LI) and Population Research Institute (PRI) alleges.

LI President, Michael Hichborn (right) and PRI President, Steven Mosher (left). Credit: Lepanto Institute (LI) and Population Research Institute (PRI)

“This must stop”: Scholars on Catholic Relief Services’ Contraception Programs in Africa

Mar 13, 2024

The alleged participation of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the promotion of contraception and abortion programs in some African countries must be halted, leaders of the Lepanto Institute (LI) and Population Research Institute (PRI) have said.

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Catholic Entity’s Project Seeks to Lower Maternal Deaths in Zambia

Dec 26, 2023

Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the humanitarian arm of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has been running a program in Zambia that seeks to reduce maternal mortality rates in the southern African country.

Caritas Freetown Executive Director Fr. Peter Konteh makes a presentation during the training organized for violence incidence monitors and reporters ahead of Sierra Leone's Saturday, June 24vGeneral elections. Credit: Caritas Freetown Media team

Sierra Leonean Caritas, Regional Peace Entity Partner to Train Violence Incidence Monitors

Jun 23, 2023

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Caritas Freetown have completed a training aimed at enhancing capacity to monitor and report violence before, during and after the Saturday, June 24 elections in Sierra Leone.

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“Respect our neutrality”: Catholic Relief Service after Killing of Employees in Ethiopia

Apr 19, 2023

Officials of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) have emphasized the need to respect the neutrality of their employees who, they say, are part of the “frontline humanitarian workers” in Ethiopia.

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“Shock, sorrow difficult to measure”: Catholic Entity after Employees Killed in Ethiopia

Apr 11, 2023

The leadership of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the humanitarian arm of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has expressed “shock and sorrow” following the reported killing of two employees in Ethiopia’s Amhara region on Easter Sunday, April 9.

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu with US Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington DC in 2022. Credit: US Embassy Tanzania

“Address critical issues”: Catholic Relief Services to U.S. Vice President in Tanzania

Mar 29, 2023

Officials of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Tanzania have urged the U.S. Vice President who started her week-long tour of three African nations on Monday, March 27 to “address critical issues”, including climate change challenge that the East African nation is facing.

West Africa, Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Peace process, Stakeholders, Humanitarian assistance, Crisis, Catholic Relief Services, CRS, ACI Africa. Credit: Public Domain

Not “any impact”: Catholic Terrorism Expert on Religious Delegation to U.S. Over Sahel

Mar 22, 2023

The planned visit to the United States (U.S) by a section of religious leaders from West Africa to discuss the protracted insecurity in the Sahel region that dates back to January 2012  “will not have any impact”, a Nigerian Catholic Priest with specialization in matters insecurity and terrorism has said.

Sean Callahan, President and CEO of CRS addressing delegates at the 19th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). Credit: ACI Africa

CRS Rallying for Support of SECAM Bishops in Renewed Fight Against Hunger, Violence

Jul 27, 2022

Catholic Relief Services, the humanitarian arm of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has appealed for more partners to join Catholic Bishops in Africa in the fight against the challenges facing the continent, including hunger, youth unemployment, and violence.

CRS officials and Bishop emeritus Vincent Sowah Boi-Nai meet members of Zakoli community following attack. Credit: CRS

Catholic Entity Reaches Out to Families, Victims of Violence in Ghana’s Yendi Diocese

Jun 11, 2022

Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the U.S., has reached out to families and victims of the Zakoli attack that reportedly left at least eight people dead and several others injured in Ghana’s Catholic Diocese of Yendi.

School administrator Patricio Mendes stands outside the school he oversees in Djam-Ma in Guinea-Bissau’s Bafatá region. Credit: Ricci Shryock for CRS

Catholic Entity in Guinea Bissau Promoting Education Through Trainings on Record Keeping

Jan 10, 2022

Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the U.S., is imparting record keeping skills to school administrators and officers of other institutions in Guinea Bissau.

Sr.Pauline, the General Superior of the congregation with Sr. Marie-Bernadetter, the Former General Superior / Aid to the Church in Need.

Nuns in Burkina Faso Providing Safe Haven for Victims of Ongoing Violence

Jan 22, 2020

Days after reports cited West African-based official of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) calling upon stakeholders in the African Sahel region to go beyond military intervention and address the root causes of the region’s conflict including “extreme poverty, high youth unemployment, a lack of education,” leaders of a religious congregation of nuns have shared about their initiative in providing a safe haven for victims of the conflict.

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Sahel Crisis: CRS Official Advices Going “beyond military to address root causes”

Jan 17, 2020

Some days after France and five Sahel nations in Western Africa met and agreed early this week to advance their military cooperation in the fight against jihadist insurgency destabilizing the countries of the region, a West African-based official of the humanitarian arm of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has underscored the need for stakeholders “to address the root causes of the conflict” even as military interventions are  being considered.

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“A better, more just world is possible, if we stand together”: Africa-based CRS Official

Jan 11, 2020

An Africa-based official of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S. with presence in over half of African countries has expressed confidence that the various humanitarian challenges facing Africa, the world’s second largest continent, among them, conflict and adverse effects of climate change such as drought and floods, can be overcome through unity.