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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: Xstrata mine protests: Aid agency CAFOD welcomes release of Peruvian partners

Two CAFOD partners who had been detained by police whilst investigating human rights abuses near Anglo-Swiss mining company Xstrata‟s new Tintaya site in Peru have been released along with six others. Their arrest on unsubstantiated charges came following complaints of intimidation by local security forces.

Press release: Consett School sends shoes to Kenya

Children at St Patrick’s Primary School in Consett have donated more than 60 pairs of shoes to children living in the Korogocho Slum in Nairobi, Kenya, after a special visit from the ‘Barefoot Runner’.

Press release: New report launched by Catholic alliance puts small farmers at heart of food system that can feed the world and reduce climate change

CAFOD calls for urgent changes to agriculture to tackle poverty

As rebels occupy the Congolese town of Goma, CAFOD pledges £100,000 to support people fleeing to safety

Rebel group the M23 entered the town of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday morning taking control of the airport. Reports from CAFOD partners on the ground indicate that tens of thousands of people are fleeing, and hundreds are taking refuge in Church buildings.