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Three Concrete Ways You Can Help The Afghan People

by Michael McG | Sep 1, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Organisations

People around the world have been shocked by the news and distressing images we have seen coming out of Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover.Afghan families are now feeling scared and abandoned. People are displaced inside their own country, while others have...

Appeal from Father Joy in Tanzania

by Giraffe | Aug 23, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD Appeals, Miscellaneous

By now, most of the priests and deacons of the diocese will have met Father Anil and Father Xavier, who have come to work alongside us. They belong to the Congregation of the Heralds of the Good News, and it is through their Provincial Superior that they have been...

Priest Gives Moving Account Of India’s Covid Crisis

by Michael McG | May 11, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Coronavirus, Organisations

Speaking at a Mass streamed lived from Delhi to the UK, director of Caritas India FATHER PAUL MOONJELY has given this very moving account of the Covid crisis in his homeland… My dear sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus, it is indeed such a gratifying and graceful...

Coronavirus In India: How You Can Help

by Michael McG | May 5, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Coronavirus, Organisations

A message from CAFOD Middlesbrough community participation coordinator CAROL CROSS about a special appeal to help with the coronavirus crisis in India…Few people can fail but be moved with compassion by the tragedy unfolding in India. The second wave of coronavirus is...

Father Bill’s Walk For Water

by Michael McG | Mar 11, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Organisations

FATHER BILL SURPLUS has been enjoying the beauty of York at dawn – all for a very good cause… A chance phone call and a mention of CAFOD’s Walk for Water campaign was enough to immediately get me onto the website and register to do 10,000 steps a day during...

Introducing CAFOD’s Lent Challenge – Walk For Water

by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Organisations

CAFOD Middlesbrough’s community participation coordinator CAROL CROSS introduces this year’s Lent Challenge, Walk for Water… It’s raining outside today, it’s cold and grey and my garden is flooded. I look out of the window with a sense of sadness and irony, just...