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Campaigns successes: A big thank you for everything in 2011

In a year of economic uncertainty and social change in the UK, CAFOD campaigners stood tall, calling for decision makers and those in power to fight injustice. Here are some of the highlights we enjoyed together.

Big Climate Connection: A big thank you

MPs throughout the country faced lobbying from countless groups of CAFOD supporters on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 November. As part of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, our campaigners took to their constituencies to ask for a strong Green Energy Bill this autumn and for a fair international climate deal in December’s international talks in Cancun, Mexico.

Thank you for making poverty an election issue

The dust has finally settled. The deals have been made. We have a new Prime Minister and a new era in British politics with the first coalition government in 70 years. But how did CAFOD supporters help put poverty and climate change on the agenda this election?

CAFOD’s 50th Anniversary: Special Edition of The Tablet

ITV News at Ten anchorwoman and journalist Julie Etchingham is editing the 1st December issue of influential Catholic news and current affairs publication The Tablet, making her the first guest editor since its inception in 1840. Julie, a lifelong supporter of the aid agency CAFOD, took the helm of the weekly Catholic publication this week to mark the culmination of a yearlong celebration of the charity's anniversary year.

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