News and Events
Updates and upcoming events across the Caritas Confederation.
Caritas Internationalis is pleased to announce the award ceremony of the “Women Weavers of Hope,” which will emphasise the vital contribution of women to building hope, care, and solidarity within their communities. The event will take place on Human Rights Day, Wednesday 10 December 2025, at 10:30, at the Aula of the Jesuit Curia, Borgo […]
“Do not forget Sudan. Hunger is killing us as surely as bullets. Speak for us. Make our suffering known.” Quote from one Bishop Caritas and ACT Alliance express their profound alarm at the grave and fast-deteriorating humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan, echoing the urgent warning issued by the Catholic Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan […]
The message could not have arrived with greater clarity or better timing. At the start of the second and decisive week of COP30, Pope Leo XIV released a video message addressed to the people and the Cardinals gathered at the Museum of the Amazonias in Belém, Brazil. The venue, dedicated to the history, culture, and […]
Delegations from Brazil and around the world brought grassroots pressure to COP30 and presented the Children’s climate declaration to Brazilian officials The sun was high by mid-morning on 15 November when the Great People’s March surged through Belém, cutting across the Amazonian city at the end of the first week of the COP30 summit. Despite […]
Caritas Internationalis event at COP30 brings voices of cyclone survivors on stage and demands climate justice Belém, Brazil, 11 November 2025 “I used to love the sound of rain. Now every drop brings fear.” The voice of Joy Reyes, a climate justice activist and survivor of Super Typhoon Ulysses from the Philippines, echoed through Side […]
As COP30 opens in the Amazonian city of Belém, the world’s attention turns once again to the promises, and the persistent shortcomings, of global climate negotiations. With climate disasters intensifying, inequalities deepening and financial pledges left unfulfilled, Caritas Internationalis arrives in Belém with a clear message: the time for rhetoric is over. Climate justice demands […]
Palermo, long a crossroads of cultures and migration, will become the stage for an urgent international dialogue from 30 September to 3 October 2025. Together with other organisations, Caritas Internationalis is bringing together Church leaders, civil society groups, and, crucially, survivors of trafficking for “Mobilising Humanity to Rebuild Hope.” The event marks both the Jubilee of Migrants […]
Catholic leaders from Pax Christi International, Caritas Internationalis and CIDSE have issued a joint statement warning that climate inaction risks fuelling global conflict, and urging world leaders to show greater resolve ahead of COP30 in Brazil (10-21 November 2025). The statement cautions that runaway climate change is already acting as a “threat multiplier,” intensifying conflicts […]
As part of the Caritas Confederation’s commitment to the empowerment, leadership and participation of women and girls, and inspired by the 2025 Jubilee Year, Pilgrims of Hope, the Weavers of Hope Award celebrates the role which women and girls play as weavers of hope in today’s world. The deadline for the Weavers of Hope Award […]
