Caritas Updates

The Caritas Update for summer 2017 looks at the Rohingya refugee crisis, Lent in 2018, environmental issues and our report, Turning the tide. We also hghlight the first World Day of the Poor.

The Caritas Update for spring looks at Social Justice Week and its theme of building communities; our Catholic Volunteer Overseas, Doug Tennent and his work in Papua New Guinea; and our livelihood programme in the Philippines. We highlight the winners of the SINGout4JUSTICE competition and the innovative clean power pilot project in the Solomons as well as Director Julianne Hickey's presentation at the UN and an honor for Solomons partner Billy Mae.

The Caritas Update for Winter looks at the food crisis in East Africa, where we are supporting people in South Sudan and Kenya. Update also includes images from both our Justice Leadership Days for senior high school students and the Caritas Challenge. Other articles cover our development work with women in Timor Lests, Caritas' response to the 2017 Budget and our Catholic Volunteers Overseas programme.

Our Spring 2016 issue focuses on Social Justice Week and the theme of migration, including our small-scale study of mirgant worker experiences and our work supporting Syrian refugees. We also look at how our development projects in Cambodia and Tonga are changinig lives, and the great entries in our annual songwriting competition.

Our Winter 2016 issue features an update on our response to Cyclone Winston in Fiji, the Benefit Impact advocacy event we helped run, the success of the Caritas Challenge, our programme in Kiribati, and what a difference our water project in Solomon Islands is making to the communities there.

Our summer 2015 issue features an update on the growing El Nino emergency in the Pacific (particularly in hard-hit PNG), the Bishops' Lent Appeal in 2016, and the Syrian refugee crisis.

Our spring issue looks at Social Justice Week and its theme of family poverty. Our programmes and humanitarian responses in Darfur, Nepal and with communities from the Carteret Islands also feature; as does the release of Laudato Si' and its call to protect 'our common home'.

The winter issue of Update looks at emergency work in Nepal and Vanuatu and development work in Cambodia. It also highlights our new resource for teachers about Parihaka and includes a photo essay about the Caritas Challenge.

The Christmas issue of Caritas Update looks at our Pacific environment report, health education in Palestine, the Bishop's Lent Appeal and empowerment and change we've affected in Nepal.

The spring issue of Caritas Update looks at what is happening during Social Justice Week this year, our Peace in the Middle East Campaign and work we have been doing at home in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Caritas Update has a new fresh look. Our winter issue 64 covers the Day of Prayer for Refugees and Migrants, Singout4Justice, Caritas Challenge our emegency work and a justice and peace diary.

This edition of Update covers the Typhoon Haiyan disaster, disaster preparedness in Tonga, Caritas' recent trip to Palestine, Caritas Challenge and our advocacy work in Kaikoura.

The spring 2013 issue covers Social Justice Week, Papua New Guinea, West Papua, the Philippines, Syria, Vanuatu disaster preparedness, Parihaka, our latest submissions, Mahitahi, schools news and the World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel