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Successful Catholic app adds features to help people cope in pandemic
Story - April 21, 2020 - In 2018, Alessandro DiSanto quit a promising job in finance to join friends in starting an app for Catholics centered around meditation and prayer. That app, Hallow, is now the top Catholic app in app stores, has 150,000 downloads in 50 countries and has been used to pray over 1 million times, according to DiSanto.…
Catholic Charities Rio Grande ready to help asylum-seekers in the U.S.
Story - February 24, 2021 - Just as the coldest weather in more than 30 years brought new misery to asylum-seekers stranded in a refugee camp in Mexico, an end to their plight may be in sight. A small group of 25 was the first to leave the camp in Matamoros, Mexico, and enter the United States Feb. 22 in Brownsville,…
Helping families get the nutrition they need
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Story - January 3, 2019 - It is hard to believe that people who live in areas rich with food go to bed hungry every night. Yet in San Joaquin County, California – which has been referred to as the breadbasket of the nation – “mixed status” families are not getting the nutrition they need. “Mixed status” families have at least…
Catholic Charities Oregon develops hundreds of affordable housing units
Story - February 11, 2022 - Catholic Charities of Oregon continues to advance new developments and initiatives to meet the goals of the Healthy Housing Initiative. Among these developments are 130 affordable housing units under construction – including 35 Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) units – in Portland at Cathedral Village Apartments and at The Annex, an innovative, privately funded property adjacent…
Catholic Charities agencies grateful for Albertson’s Nourishing Neighbors grant
Story - August 7, 2020 - In the face of unprecedented need and upended distribution models, our agencies are doing more, with less. Our network of agencies across the country are innovating to serve their neighbors, complying with social distancing requirements and meeting rapidly evolving needs. Catholic Charities agencies are grateful for the support from the Albertson’s Nourishing Neighbors grant that…
Catholic Charities Diocese of Cleveland
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Member - August 17, 2015 - Since 1912, Catholic Charities, Diocese of Cleveland, has provided help to people in need. Today, the agency delivers more than 150 services at 60 locations. From prevention, mental health and substance use treatment, to family, children and community services, to camps and athletics and more, Catholic Charities, Diocese of Cleveland, serves 400,000 unique individuals across…
Catholic Charities reopens Brooklyn childhood center destroyed by Sandy
Story - January 15, 2020 - Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens celebrated a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Charles F. Murphy Early Childhood Development Center in Coney Island on November 8, 2019, to mark the opening of the state-of-the-art facility. The new building replaces the former Madeleine Jones Head Start Center, operated by Catholic Charities since 1979, which was destroyed…
Winter storm halts nearly everything but Texas hospitality
Story - February 23, 2021 - The Burton family from Lake Charles, Louisiana, were on the way home from a New Mexico skiing vacation when the worst winter storm in recent Texas history brought the state to a perpetual halt. They kept track of the worst-hit regions and avoided Amarillo and Austin. Then Feb. 17, as many Texans huddled in their…
CCUSA president and CEO joins White House delegation for Mother Teresa canonization
News - September 2, 2016 - It was announced today that Catholic Charities USA President and CEO, Sister Donna Markham, OP, PhD, is part of a special Presidential delegation traveling to the Vatican to attend the canonization of Mother Teresa. The Honorable Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, will lead the delegation which also includes the…
Catholic Charities Diocese of Albany
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Member - August 14, 2015 - Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany is one of the largest nonprofit, social services organizations in New York’s Capital Region. Serving 14 counties, we advocate on behalf of the poor and vulnerable, collaborating with others to build a more just society. Through the generous support of donors and the community, we are able to…
Helping to make a refugee’s dream come true
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Story - April 29, 2016 - In 2001, when Pamela was just seven years old, violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo forced her to flee to safety in the Mayukwayukwa refugee camp in Zambia. She lived there for eight years with her sister, with almost no hope of a better future. After all, less than one percent of refugees are…
Dioceses spared by Isaias, but ready to respond to those in need
Story - August 6, 2020 - Catholic churches, schools and other properties were spared serious damage by a mid-season tropical storm that raced up the East Coast, killing at least six people and leaving more than 3.7 million customers without power. The storm, named Isaias, came ashore late Aug. 3 as a hurricane near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, in the…