Tag: Catholic Charities USA
Dorian update: Cruise ship to deliver aid to Bahamas, bring evacuees...
MIAMI -- A second Florida-to-Bahamas round-trip humanitarian cruise was set to sail the weekend of Sept. 14, weather-permitting, carrying supplies, transport specialty personnel, power...
Hurricane Dorian recovery work shows ‘we are your brother’s keeper,’ says...
MIAMI -- As catastrophic as Hurricane Dorian was, the characteristic optimism of Bahamians will help soften the painful recovery to come, according to a...
Trump administration plan to change how inflation is measured concerns advocates...
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is weighing a plan that uses a different definition of inflation to determine who lives in poverty and who...
Catholic Charities USA accepting donations online to help migrant children
Catholic Charities USA is accepting donations online to help its agencies along the U.S. border with Mexico meet basic needs and ensure that migrant...
Analysis: New survey says Catholic organizations have responded well to changing...
WASHINGTON — Immigration policies rolled out during the Trump administration have spread fear among immigrant populations in the U.S., but Catholic organizations and parishes...
Bishop Dewane ‘profoundly saddened’ by deaths, damage from Midwest storms
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' domestic policy committee May 24 called for "prayers for the victims and their grieving families...
Volunteer gardener at crisis maternity home provides balm for the wounded
WASHINGTON — Outside of a week or two in the darkest days of winter, it’s always gardening season for Jana Hukriede.
A key volunteer at...
North Carolina parishes still coping with Florence waters
RALEIGH, N.C. (CNS) -- In the days and weeks since Hurricane Florence made landfall in mid-September, North Carolina residents are still coping with the...
Catholic Charities distributes disaster relief to areas hit by Florence
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Carolinas were hard hit with record rainfall and flooding rivers from tropical storm Florence since it made landfall Sept. 14....
Catholic Charities USA chief describes suffering of immigrants at border
NOGALES, Mexico -- Dominican Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, grew emotional talking about the harrowing stories she heard from...