Catholic Relief Services

  • September 9, 2022

CRS, others call for increased aid to prevent Somalia’s looming famine

Amid a U.N. warning that a famine is looming in Somalia, U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services is calling for...
  • August 19, 2022

Federal judge rules CRS must pay health benefits for spouse of gay employee

A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland has ruled that Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' overseas relief...
  • May 19, 2022

Local students recognized in CCHD art contest

On Friday, May 6, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted awarded two of the winners of the Catholic Campaign for...
  • September 17, 2021

CRS program works with Ugandan men as they take on new family roles

It is not unusual these days to find Raymond Okello, who lives in the Karamoja area of northeastern...
  • May 26, 2021

Southern Madagascar drought leads to starvation; pandemic complicates aid

About 14,000 people in drought-ravaged southern Madagascar face starvation after exhausting all their options to cope, relief organization...
  • May 21, 2021

CRS official in Gaza: ‘I know these people. They are not numbers’

With pressure for a cease-fire increasing, 11 days of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza are taking a toll both...
  • February 25, 2021

Catholic agencies welcome access to Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Catholic relief agencies in Ethiopia welcomed a move by the government to allow more access in Tigray, the...
  • February 9, 2021

CRS shifts into gear to help during ‘crisis on top of other crises’

Though COVID-19 seems like the global enemy to defeat, for aid organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, it...