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Caritas Freetown Donates Household Items to Police Officers in Sierra Leone after Inferno
The charity arm of Sierra Leone’s Archdiocese of Freetown has reached out to several families of police officers whose houses were razed down and their properties destroyed following last week’s...
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Caritas Freetown Sets Up Businesses for Dozens of Ebola Survivors in Sierra Leone
Some 50 Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone, all of them bearing the scars of the disease that killed at least 3,000 people in the west African country, gathered at Hastings...
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International Catholic Charity Gifts Struggling Sierra Leonean Clerics with Mass Stipends
Catholic Priests ministering under difficult conditions in Sierra Leone’s Freetown Archdiocese have been given Mass stipends amounting to 17,160 Euros to cushion them through the COVID-19 pandemic that has been...
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Why Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in Sierra Leone is a Challenge
The leadership of the development and humanitarian arm of the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales, Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has, in a report, explained why it is...
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To Fight COVID-19 in Africa, “stop the great virus of corruption”: Bishop in Sierra Leone
A Prelate in Sierra Leone has, in a reflection about COVID-19 in Africa, identified the “virus of corruption” as a major stumbling block in the fight against the pandemic on...
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Caritas Freetown Feted for Impacting Vulnerable Lives in Sierra Leone
The charity arm of the Archdiocese of Freetown in Sierra Leone working among the marginalized and vulnerable groups has been awarded for its humanitarian activities that have changed thousands of...
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Caritas Freetown Restoring Dignity in Sierra Leone’s Ebola Survivors
To the rest of the world, the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa evokes vivid memories of one of the worst viral infections ever recorded in history that left thousands...
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Caritas Freetown Defying Setbacks to Rescue Sierra Leone’s Sexually Molested Girls
At St. Mary’s Interim Child Care Centre within the Archdiocese of Freetown in Sierra Leone, girls as young as five who have been sexually molested embark on the bumpy process...
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Catholic Charity Among Agencies Partnering with Ireland to Fight COVID-19 in Sierra Leone
The overseas development agency of the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, Trocaire, is among Ireland’s “three largest humanitarian agencies” that have come together to address COVID-19 challenges in Sierra Leone.
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Prelate in Sierra Leone Condemns Unrest that Killed Five, Urges Focus on COVID-19 Fight
The Apostolic Administrator of Makeni Diocese in Sierra Leone, Bishop Natale Paganelli, has condemned a recent attack in a town in the west African country that left at least five...
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UK-based Catholic Aid Agency Using Radio for COVID-19 Sensitization in Africa
In a bid to tackle COVID-19 crisis in Africa, the leadership of the development and humanitarian arm of the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales, Catholic Agency for Overseas Development...
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“Engage in responsible dialogue on security, (public) welfare”: Bishop in Sierra Leone
The COVID-19-related violence in the West African nation of Sierra Leone has drawn condemnation from a Bishop who has called upon all parties in the conflict to engage in “responsible...
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Salesian Missions Reviews Service to Street Children in Africa on Their International Day
On the occasion of the International Day for Street Children marked Sunday, April 12, Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), joined...
