International
Caritas Australia has warned that Gaza is suffering from the worst hunger crisis, being home to 80 per cent of the global population at catastrophic risk of starvation and death.
International
As evacuation orders continue in southern Gaza and with an estimated 1.8 million people now internally displaced, Caritas Australia says the humanitarian situation is becoming ‘even more desperate’.
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People of faith were encouraged to continue to ‘pray and build friendships’ as they gathered for an ecumenical service calling for peace in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Forty one years ago I spent six months on Kibbutz Nir Oz in the Negev Desert of Israel, just a few kilometres from the Gaza strip.
The global community of the Catholic Church's aid and development agency is in mourning after the devastating loss of a Caritas Jerusalem employee in Gaza.
I have been saddened to see a flare up of hostilities in two countries that hold a special place in my heart – Israel and Ethiopia.
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