Tag Archive | "Catholic Relief Services"

CRS Ambassadors preparing for Food Fast

The College first hosted Food Fast last year, which was an eye-opening experience for many who participated in it. 14 students and three faculty members spent 10 hours fasting, involving themselves in case-study scenarios and reflecting on the experience.

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CRS: Working with communities, for communities

Banerjee is leading the effort, helping various communities around the world and making sure all humans are given the dignity they deserve.

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Trip to Capitol Hill gives ECG class chance to ‘work for global justice’

11 students went to Capitol Hill to speak with their senators from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to explain how the foreign aid budget helps people around the world become self-sufficient.

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Turmoil in the Middle East: The fight for freedom continues

Mark Schnellbaecher speaks about religious freedom in the turmoil of the Middle East.

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CRS leader says protests ‘could just be the beginning’

Recent attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions throughout the Middle East could signal the end of clashes between Arab Muslims and the western world – or herald many more conflicts to come, according to a Catholic Relief Services expert on the region.

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Students With A Global Vision

CRS Ambassadors make a difference in the world from right here at Cabrini College.

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Students lobby for global justice

As 17 Cabrini students explored the halls of Congress on Friday, Dec. 2, touring Capitol Hill was far from their minds. Lobbying to sustain the international assistance budget for 2013 was the mission for the ECG 300: Working for Global Justice with CRS.

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LOQation Season 4 Episode 10

  This week LOQation features coverage of Halloween Havoc, a speech given by Catholic Relief Services representative Mark Schnellbaecher, and much more! Tune in to LOQation for more!  

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Cabrini, St. Joseph’s receive fair trade grant

Cabrini and St. Joseph University are presented with fair trade grant by Catholic Relief Services.

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Lukewarm response to GSN from faculty, students

Catholic Relief Services held a Global Solidarity Network on water security that had mixed reviews from college faculty and students alike who took part in the two-week event.

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Haiti’s struggle continues

“We [CRS] were there with them through the earthquake, we will be there for them for the years and years to come for their development.”

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CRS president urges continued aid for Haiti

Ken Hackett, president of Catholic Relief Services, laid out a plan at a conference at Villanova University on Nov. 8 how aid and development organizations like CRS can work with Haiti for a sustainable future. He stressed

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Impending Crisis: CRS urges students to take action as Sudan referendum approaches

Students attend CRS hosted rally to spread awareness about Sudan

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CRS trains students on campus

Catholic Relief Services Ambassadors from Cabrini College and Villanova University were educated on their five social justice issues including fair trade and microfinance, HIV/AIDS, migration, human trafficking and food and water security. CRS, a partner of Cabrini College, held its annual student advocacy and ambassador training in Cabrini’s own Grace Hall on Friday Sept. 17.

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Students organize over Sudanese conflict

President of Catholic Relief Services at Cabrini College organized a separate working group of CRS that is immediately acting on what is happening in Sudan. His plans within the working group are reaching out to the Cabrini STAND (Students Taking Action Now in Darfur, a world-renowned student-run organization of college and high school students who are anti-genocide activists) chapter and the Black Student Union to join forces with the CRS Ambassadors.

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