Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 national Catholic relief, development, and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The name Caritas In
The 1924 Eucharistic Congress was a catalyst for the cross-border exchange and cooperation between Caritas organisations.
The North Sea flood of 1953 were a major emergency of the 1950s in which Caritas Internationalis coordinated the Catholic relief efforts.
In 1962, the Chilean Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez was elected as president of Caritas Internationalis.
In the 1980s, Caritas Internationalis responded among other to the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health
Caritas Internationalis
…charity and justice throughout the world". Caritas Internationalis is the second-largest international humanitarian aid network in the world after the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. In 1891, Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum novarum was published, addressing the condition of the working classes. Rerum Novarum is considered a…
The Red Cross and Red Crescent emblems, the symbols from which the movement derives its name, Geneva, 2005
The Red Cross, after the Battle of Gravelotte in 1870
Henry Dunant, author of A Memory of Solferino
Original document of the First Geneva Convention, 1864