Church team helps tea workers secure rights

An Indian Church team that has been helping poor people fight for their rights for years is now focusing on tea garden workers in Assam state. (Lissy Maruthanakuzhy, ucanews.com)

Bangladesh fish hatcheries raise standards

Caritas Bangladesh has since 1980 assisted thousands of fishermen to achieve self-sufficiency through the supply of fish fry and its microcredit and advocacy programs. (Uttom Stephan Rozario, ucanews.com)
“I took a fisheries loan from Caritas and also obtained fish fry,” said Iqbal Hossain, a Muslim fisherman from the northwestern Rajshahi district.
“The interest rate is a manageable [...]

The Micah Mandate

The Micah Mandate is a Malaysian Christian-based public interest advocacy ministry that “seeks a transformation of our nation through justice, mercy and humility’, this site states.

Bangladeshi Catholic group for workers’ rights

Catholic workers say they are grateful to a Church-run organization for giving them a voice, livelihoods and safeguarding their rights. (UCA News)

Indian nuns educate Muslim, Hindu street girls

Some Hindu and Muslim girls living on the streets in an eastern Indian city are getting quality education from some Catholic nuns. (UCA News)

Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute

C-FAM, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute was founded in the US in 1997 in order to monitor and affect the social policy debate at the United Nations and other international institutions.

Singapore Catholic deaf community

Singapore Catholic Deaf Community, known as SCDC was established on August 9, 1978, with a small group of deaf Catholic members at the Canossian School for the Hearing-Impaired (CSHI), formerly Canossian School for the Deaf.
In 1985 two groups in two different parishes ministering to the deaf merged and established a place at Novena Church, Thomson Road. [...]

Jesuit Refugee Service, Thailand

Jesuit Refugee Service Thailand provides emergency and relief for asylum seekers, education for refugees in camps, and various support for migrants.
This video by UCA News features JRS Thailand’s Aden Raj outlining the role the organisation plays in serving this segment of the community, in migrant detention centres, camps and elsewhere.
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JRS Jesuit Refugee Service - Thailand [...]

Cardinal Kung Foundation

The Cardinal Kung Foundation is an organization that seeks to promote the survival and growth of the Roman Catholic Church in China, in the midst of government censure and persecution.
It draws its name and inspiration from Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, a prelate who defied the Chinese government’s sanctions and inspired the faithful under him to remain [...]

Mary MacKillop East Timor Mission

The Mary MacKillop East Timor Mission , a ministry of Mary MacKillop International Mission Inc, began with the response of the Sisters of St Joseph to the request by Bishop Carlos Belo in 1993 for help for the people of East Timor - he spoke of his hope for “the building up of a new society [...]

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