Donate to CAFOD’s work >> Sughara was standing on the steps of her small mud house, which was framed by green fields and towering mountain peaks in Ghor province in Afghanistan. As we approached, I noticed that she was busily spinning wool from one of her wrists. She stopped for a moment to give us [...]
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July 9, 2010
Congo: Don’t forget how to be human
I’ve just visited the diocese of Bukavu in Sud-Kivu, eastern Congo where the “Interahamwe” – rebel fighters - continue to rape and raid. I went to Mwanda, an hour’s drive from Bukavu town. Just days before, rebel troops had attacked a nearby village, taking the community’s food and animals, leaving one man badly injured. Donate to our Congo Appeal In [...]
July 5, 2010
Congo: Rape as commodity
I’ve just met Furaha Ciwaci in a village outside Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She’s a 17-year-old girl with fierce eyes and a one year-old son. Donate to our Congo Appeal Furaha speaks to me in French even though Swahili is her first language. She was a good student, she tells me, [...]
July 1, 2010
Congo: Regret for sexual violence
CAFOD Partner Father Justin Nkunzi, director of our partner the Bukavu Archdiocese Justice and Peace Commission, expressing regret over the violence in Congo Donate to our Congo Appeal
June 21, 2010
Robin Hood Tax: Momentum building towards budget and G20
EU Heads of State got us a step closer to Robin Hood taxes and to fairer finance last week. At their Council meeting in Brussels on Thursday, European Leaders agreed that “Member States should introduce systems of levies and taxes on financial institutions to ensure fair burden-sharing and to set incentives to contain systemic risk”. This [...]
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