Disaster Relief

Texas Catholic groups struggle to provide aid after Beryl cuts power to millions

July 9, 2024
By James Ramos
OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News

Close to a foot of rain fell in just under 12 hours in parts of the Greater Houston area as Hurricane Beryl pushed into the southeast Gulf Coast of Texas when it made landfall near Matagorda, Texas, in the early morning hours of July 8.

Grenada bishop addresses flock following Hurricane Beryl’s wrath

July 5, 2024
By Tom Tracy
OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News

In his first public address since Hurricane Beryl visited the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles region as the earliest formed Category 5 hurricane on record, the bishop of St. George’s in Grenada took to social media to offer a spiritual message of hope and resilience following the July 1 landfall there.

CRS calls House version of foreign spending bill ‘inconsistent’ with U.S. ‘values, interests’

July 3, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Giving, News, U.S. Congress, World News

Catholic Relief Services, the international relief and development agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S., criticized funding legislation recently passed by the U.S. House as “inconsistent with American values and interests” over cuts to humanitarian funding.

‘Lots of pain’ as families lose everything in New Mexico wildfires, says parish volunteer

June 21, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News

A volunteer at a New Mexico parish told OSV News June 20 he’s seeing “lots of pain” in the faces of those displaced by massive wildfires in that state’s central region.

CRS official says agency has been unable to to get aid to southern Gaza Strip since May 6

May 28, 2024
By Judith Sudilovsky
OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News

As tensions and the number of victims mount in southern Gaza Strip, Catholic Relief Services said it has not been able to get humanitarian aid through to the southern Gaza Strip since May 6 and it no longer has any supplies left in its warehouses in that area, said Jason Knapp, CRS country director for Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza.