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The following testimony comes from Harout Bedrossian, Head of Resource Development at Caritas Jerusalem, who witnessed shelling near his home in the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday, 20 March 2026, just weeks after the war started. In his own words, he describes the shock of that moment and what it means to be a […]
“If you decide to go abroad in search of better opportunities, ensure that you go safely and with the necessary skills. Avoid taking illegal routes.” With these words, Meena (name changed for privacy), a Nepali woman who migrated to the Gulf for work, shares a warning for others considering the same journey. Her story features […]
In late 2025, communities across the Philippines were hit by a series of overlapping disasters that left thousands of families struggling to rebuild their lives. Successive tropical cyclones brought days of torrential rain, flooding and landslides across large parts of the country. At the same time, a powerful earthquake struck Cebu province and Davao Oriental, […]
With her life reduced to a handful of documents, a few packed bags and a small grey cat curled inside a carrier, Victoria closed the door of her flat in Dobropillya for what she believes may be the last time. Dobropillya lies in western Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine — a coal-mining town that until recently sat […]
For decades, the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been affected by armed conflict, extreme poverty and widespread violence, including sexual violence used as a weapon of war. In South Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering Rwanda, social and cultural barriers also limit women’s participation in leadership and […]
In the river town of Buloburte in central Somalia, more than 1,000 women and girls gathered late last year to talk openly about something that is rarely discussed in public: violence against women. The meeting took place between September and December 2025 in Buloburte district, in Somalia’s Hiran region, about 220km north of Mogadishu. It […]
On this International Women’s Day, we join the global call for advancing equality, protecting human dignity, and ensuring safety and justice for all women and girls — not as ideals, but as lived realities. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal […]
Caritas Internationalis stands with the people of Lebanon and joins the Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon in expressing deep concern for the escalating violence affecting the country and the wider Middle East. As armed conflict intensifies, innocent lives continue to be lost, families are displaced, and already vulnerable communities face renewed fear, […]
As war spreads across the Middle East, retaliatory violence is affecting several countries, with Lebanon experiencing immediate humanitarian consequences. In the early hours of 2 March, exchanges of fire erupted along the Lebanon–Israel border, followed by extensive Israeli airstrikes in South Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and the southern suburbs of Beirut. Within hours, at least […]