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World Food Day: CWS urges micronutrients, local agriculture priorities

This year's international World Food Day finds both the developed nations and the globe's poorest battling climate change punishments to agriculture, on top of being mired in a world food crisis now further drained by an international financial meltdown. more »

CWS network resettles 4,892 refugees in FY 2008

Global humanitarian agency Church World Service resettled 4,892 refugees to the United States from October 2007 through September 2008. more »

Paraguay and Bolivia indigenous people also get help with land rights

Indigenous Guarani people of the Gran Chaco region recently won the legal right to thousands of acres of their traditional land. more »

Argentine Chaco Guarani people win titles to their own lands

CWS programs help indigenous groups mount legal claims, develop sustainable agriculture in region. more »

CWS Emergency appeal update: 2008 U.S. hurricanes

This update expands the 2008 omnibus appeal for U.S. Hurricane, which includes CWS responses to Hurricanes Dolly, Fay, Gustav, Ike and Kyle. more »

In storm-hit Galveston, nearly every yard is caked in toxic sludge

Hurricane Ike struck Galveston, an island city, 60 miles from Houston, September 13 with 110-mph winds and a wall of sea water. As the ocean surge rose, it carried toxic chemicals, effluent and debris into thousands of living rooms, bedrooms and kitchens. more »