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Rebuilding Homes and Communities After Disaster
Following a brutal storm, CRS helped 20,000 families with new shelters along with improved water and sanitation infrastructure.
St. Francis of Assisi and CRS: Celebrating Animals Around the World
At Catholic Relief Services, we are blessed every day to experience the beauty of God’s creatures. In honor of St. Francis of Assisi’s feast day on October 4, we are delighted to share some of our best photography of animals around the world paired with Bible verses and other quotes.More
Hunger Crisis Besieges Africa
A combination of violence, insecurity and prolonged drought, made increasingly worse by climate change, has left more than 20 million people across...More
5 Reasons We Need Foreign Aid
These 5 examples show how United States foreign aid is good because it saves lives. Poverty-focused international assistance is only 1% of our nation’s budget, but it works to .More
The Catholic Relief Services Collection: Help Jesus in Disguise
Through the Church and agencies such as Catholic Relief Services, we can reach everywhere there is need, and always respond to Jesus in disguise.More
Providing Lifesaving Support for Syrian Refugees
Syria is at the center of the world's most devastating humanitarian emergency. Once a vibrant hub of Middle Eastern culture and history, Syria has been besieged by internal conflict that has uprooted millions of innocent families. Of those, 4.1 million Syrians have fled across the border into...More
Love and the Bible: Connecting with Each Other
There are many forms of love. While romantic love is what many think of during Valentine's Day, we should also remember God's agape or self-sacrificing and unconditional love for each of us. There's also brotherly love that we share with one another.More
Climate Change, El Niño Wilt Zimbabwe’s Food Supply
One quarter of Zimbabwe’s people are going hungry in Zimbabwe after another failed harvest. More
Pope Francis and Climate Change: Nurturing Our Human Roots
“Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home,” Pope Francis writes in "Laudato Si'," his encyclical on the environment.More
Welcome to the Family
Welcome to the new crs.org. We’re glad you’re here! As a member of our always growing family, we hope you’ll visit often.
Our website relaunch comes just days before the World Meeting of Families convenes in Philadelphia. Held every 3 years since 1994, the gathering...More