This slide show was produced by CRS Communications Officer Liz O’Neill. For more information on this project, please read Jobs in Gaza: Helping Grads Connect With Work. To interview Matt Davis or other CRS staff in our Jerusalem/West Bank/Gaza office, … Continue reading
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) celebrates Palestinian women on its website today with two features on CRS programs in Gaza and the West Bank: one a story about a young woman in Gaza who won’t let her disability … Continue reading
Catholic Relief Services thanks Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious leaders from the United States for recommitting to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Their statement, issued by the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East (NILI), urges the … Continue reading
Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of Catholic social service agencies that includes Catholic Relief Services, reports on how the Church is responding to the needs of Syrian refugees fleeing the violence in their country and are going to Jordan and Lebanon. … Continue reading
A CRS internship program for college graduates in the Gaza strip is having a positive impact on the lives of young professionals desperate to find a job. The project appealed to a 24-year-old woman in Gaza: Like recent graduates around … Continue reading
Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, Chairman of the CRS Board, writes on the America magazine website of his recent pastoral visit to Iraq. Bishop Kicanas was accompanied on the trip by Bishop George Murry, S.J. We were coming to Iraq in … Continue reading
Mark Schnellbaecher, CRS Regional Director for Europe and Middle East, spoke October 25, 2011 at Villanova University on how the Arab Spring is changing the landscape for humanitarian and relief work in the region. Catherine Warrick, Associate professor of Political … Continue reading
John Allen Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter speaks with Scott Appleby of Notre Dame, a distinguished American Catholic historian and scholar of religion, about the changing situation of Christians in the Middle East and what Catholics in the West … Continue reading
Not long ago, Iraqi native Khawla Elia was at the peak of her professional career. As the secretary general of Catholic Relief Serivces partner agency Caritas Iraq, the buck stopped at her desk. She was responsible for everything, from hiring … Continue reading
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