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March 23, 2021

Fire claims at least 15 lives at Rohingya refugee camp

People stand amid smoke and flames after a fire broke out at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 22, 2021. The fire swept through the camp, killing at least five people, destroying homes and endangering the lives of tens of thousands of refugees, camp officials said.

Even as the last of five fires was still out of control among clusters of tents and shelters that house 600,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Caritas Bangladesh head of programs Abdullah Fuad was thinking of the women and children who have now endured one more disaster. “We are still counting the number of damaged households and the number of people affected,” he told The Catholic Register just hours after the fire broke out on March 22.

Published in International
June 21, 2016

Closure of Kenyan refugee camp worries religious leaders

Refugees who fled the famine in Somalia wait in a reception area in 2011 at a camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Bishop Joseph Alessandro of the Garissa Diocese and the Jesuit Refugee Service are concerned about closing down the refugee camp with proper care.

NAIROBI, Kenya – Religious leaders and humanitarian activists are urging the government to treat the mostly Muslim Somali migrants who are facing expulsion from the Dadaab refugee camp with dignity.

Published in International