Over 100 faith leaders have written to the United Nations Secretary-General ahead of a crucial international meeting on corruption. They insist that corruption is underming attempts to reduce global poverty.

Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical on globalisation, economics and poverty must set the tone for a new approach to global development which ensures dignity for all people and long-term environmental sustainability, says Progressio.

Catholic aid agencies CAFOD in the UK and Development & Peace in Canada are calling on multi-million pound mining giant Goldcorp to ensure their San Martin mine in Honduras does not leave a toxic legacy when it closes at the end of 2009.

CAFOD partners working in the Vanni conflict zone in Sri Lanka have been severely wounded during the latest spate of shelling.

CAFOD partners in Sri Lanka have offered to step in as negotiators between fighting forces in an attempt to avert an escalating humanitarian tragedy in the north east of the country.

The UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has congratulated Catholic aid agency CAFOD on its new campaign to raise awareness and mobilise pressure on the issue of climate change.

The director of the Catholic Aid agency CAFOD, has said that the greed that underpins many developed countries’ economies and personal lifestyles is pushing the world’s poorest to the edge of existence.

Catholic aid agency CAFOD is calling for action to halt the suppression of groups and individuals working for change in the extractives industry in developing countries.

Catholic aid agency CAFOD says that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown should use his audience with Pope Benedict XVI to reflect on his part in the current global economic crisis.

The economic and financial crisis could wipe up to $41 billion from the United Kingdom aid budget for developing countries over the next seven years, says research from the Catholic development agency CAFOD.