Humanitarian Aid

For young Christians in Iraq, the inevitable question is this: Is it is really worthwhile to stay in my homeland? Many have already emigrated, and the number of Christians continues to decline, because so many families and young people can no longer see any future for themselves in their home country. But since 2015, the Catholic University in Erbil has been something of a “beacon and symbol of hope,” as Archbishop Bashar Warda puts it. They started with just 11 ...

The war in Ukraine has prompted the greatest wave of refugees since the Second World War. Almost 15 million people have been forced to flee, 7 million of them within their own country. Many have found shelter in Church-run facilities.  Currently 98 women and children are housed in the Catholic Pidlyute youth center in Ivano-Frankivsk, in West Ukraine, and Archbishop Volodymyr Vijtyshyn has written to ask our help in caring for them. “The worst thing,” he writes, “is that the ...

For the past three years now, Lebanon has been going through the worst crisis in its history. The economy has collapsed, inflation is at dizzying heights, and the state electricity supply functions at most for one or two hours a day. Many people are thinking of leaving the country, and according to UN figures, three quarters of the population are now living in poverty.  This poverty is especially severe in rural areas. To help, eighteen religious of the congregation of ...