by Sheila Pires | Nov 18, 2023 | Caritas South Africa
The President of Caritas South Africa has called on the people of God to make the seventh annual World Day of the Poor “more meaningful, personal, and enduring,” considering the economic challenges in South Africa. “Approximately 55.5 percent (30.3 million people) of...
by Phuti Makgabo | May 16, 2022 | Caritas, Caritas South Africa, News, Pope, Social Action
On Saturday, 14 May 2022, Caritas Durban led by its President Archbishop Mandla Jwara accompanied His Excellence, Archbishop Peter Wells, the Nuncio to Southern Africa together with his First Secretary, Monsignor Dario Paviša, to visit 3 of the areas that were...
by Phuti Makgabo | Nov 28, 2019 | Bishop Statements, Caritas South Africa, Ikhanya News, Justice and Peace
PASTORAL LETTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, GIRLS AND CHILDREN “A bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Gen. 2:18, 23) Brothers and sisters, This is a very sad and tragic moment in our land when women and young girls are murdered and subjected to all forms of...
by Phuti Makgabo | Oct 31, 2019 | Caritas, Caritas South Africa, Ikhanya News
FOCUS (Faith Based Organizational Capacity Strengthening Universal HIV Treatment Program) Funded by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) South Africa has an estimated 7.1 million people living with HIV (PLHIV), with a projected increase to 7.5 million by 2020. In 2017,...
by Phuti Makgabo | Oct 22, 2019 | Caritas, Caritas South Africa, CPLO, Ikhanya News, Migrants and Refugees Office, News, Uncategorized
THE VIRTUE OF HOSPITALITY IN THE BIBLICAL TRADITION One way of combatting xenophobia is to treat other people the same way as we would like them to treat us. But this is a theoretical statement. It expresses a wish. It may however find meaning within the efforts of...
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