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Many Catholics finished their fast yesterday since it was Good Friday. The Youth Ministry at St. Bridget Parish in Mesa are starting theirs. They’re joining in a 24-hour fast today in solidarity with youth around the world. It’s sponsored by Catholic Relief Services. I did a zip code search on the Food Fast’s Web site [...]

MESA — Students at St. Timothy School heard a firsthand account March 5 of how funds from their second annual Operation Rice Bowl collection transforms lives. The global hunger awareness initiative, which coincides with Lent, is a project of Catholic Relief Services. Thomas Awiapo and his three brothers ate from a single bowl as children. [...]

Not long after the 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile early Saturday morning, Caritas flew out their emergency response team from Haiti. Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations operating in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. “It was an enormous earthquake, so you would expect major damage,” said [...]

Catholic Relief Services will kick off their annual global hunger awareness program Feb. 17, the same day Catholics begin their spiritual journey during the season of Lent. Some 12,000 communities take part in Operation Rice Bowl, which gets its name from the symbolic rice bowl that’s utilized as the focal point. The program also calls [...]

Catholic agencies call for rigorous safeguards to protect Haitian children The heads of five major Catholic agencies outlined measures that should be taken to protect unaccompanied Haitian Children. These agencies, involved in the Haitian earthquake relief effort, detailed the steps in a Feb. 4 letter sent to three cabinet members, according to a press release [...]