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October 13, 2015
Relief Before Disaster: Prepared for the Worst
To live in rural southern Bangladesh is to play an endless game of Chutes and Ladders. Long days of hard work - tending rice fields, selling eggs, buying goats - of scrimping and saving, of buying medicines and paying school fees, let you climb the ladder rung by rung.
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October 9, 2015
Break the Cycle of Poverty
Today is a good day to make the world a better place for our brothers and sisters in need.More
September 30, 2015
How CRS is Celebrating International Cofffee Day
We're deepening our commitment to serving smallholder farm families and workers in the Coffeelands.More
September 25, 2015
Helping Farmers Adapt to Climate Change in Niger
In Niger, Chaibou Alzouma now sees the truth in the timeless biblical lesson of Galatians 6:7: You reap what you sow.
That was not always the case for this 57-year-old farmer who spends most days on his feet, working long hours under the scorching sun of West Africa. No matter how...More
September 25, 2015
Make Your Coffee Habit Count
Purchase coffee, chocolate and snacks through Catholic Relief Services partner Equal Exchange and make a difference in the lives of farmers.More
September 11, 2015
Growing Healthy Children and Futures: The First 1,000 Days
What can you do in 1,000 days? In Rwanda, you can save a child’s life. The 1,000 days between a woman’s pregnancy and her child’s second birthday are critical to shaping the child’s future.More
September 11, 2015
The Cost of Hunger in Burkina Faso
Today in Burkina Faso, more than 29% of children under age 5 have suffered from a form of malnutrition called stunting. Because they didn’t get enough nutritious foods in the womb and through their first 2 years of life, they are more prone to disease, poor school performance and difficulty when...More
August 25, 2015
The Right to Faith, the Responsibility to Peace
In these days leading up to the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on human ecology, our conversations are rightfully focused on the pontiff’s namesake’s concern for the environment. After all, St. Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of animals and ecology. But in light of Pope Francis’ day...More
August 25, 2015
Senegal: Environmental Protection Meets Peacebuilding
Every evening, Toumboul Sané leads a group of volunteers who patrol more than 1,200 acres of forest in Senegal's Casamance region. By standing guard, they are protecting trees—one of the region's most valuable resources—from poachers.
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August 21, 2015
Prayers and General Intercessions for Current Emergencies
Use these prayers and general intercessions in your liturgies and prayer groups to pray on behalf of those threatened by current emergencies around the globe, and to draw us all closer in solidarity with the vulnerable.More
