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Press release: CAFOD warns Government as 1,000 day countdown begins

Catholic aid agency CAFOD will tell the Government and the United Nations on Good Friday that urgent action is required to agree a new global plan to tackle poverty. Good Friday marks exactly 1,000 days until the start of 2015, when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed a decade ago are due to expire.

Press release: Barefoot Torchbearer keeps the Olympic Flame alive

An Olympic Torchbearer from Consett, County Durham, has decided to donate his torch to a gym for boys and girls living in a slum 8,000 kilometres away in Kenya, who inspired him to run his leg of the Torch Relay barefoot.

Press release: One year on from the Horn and East Africa food crisis

One year on from the Horn and East Africa food crisis Last year more than 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and the newly-formed Republic of South Sudan were left in need of food, water and emergency healthcare because of one of the worst droughts in 60 years.

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Stricter EU rules on biofuels must foster food security, not European industry interests, say Catholic agencies CIDSE

On 17 October, the European Commission is expected to present stricter rules for biofuels to increase their sustainability.