Today, on Ash Wednesday, Progressio is delighted to add its name to a call to the Church to reflect, pray and act on climate change and environmental degradation in our world
Entitled Climate change...
TimAldred, 22 February 2012
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Grounds for cautious optimism
On the...
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As we approach the 2nd anniversary of the 2010 earthquake Lizzette Robleto-Gonzalez asks what the UK's role be in rebuilding Haiti should be?
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Progressio, 14 November 2011
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the floods in El Salvador – indeed, the UN are calling it “one of the greatest disasters” in the country’s history.
Once again, a massive effort is...
Progressio, 10 November 2011
It may no longer be making the news – but in East Africa, the famine persists. Rains have come at last, easing the drought, but also bringing the risk of flooding and the spread of diseases like...
TimAldred, 9 November 2011
The floods in Central America have captured the Progressio homepage in recent weeks, and for good reason. Communities we’re working in have been devastated.
We work with some of the communities in...
Daniel Hale, 24 October 2011
