• Caritas in New Zealand grew out of Catholic concern in the 1950s and 1960s for justice and a fairer distribution of the world's resources.
• Catholic bishops of New Zealand's have a long history of working for justice, peace and development, stretching back to the 1950s.
• Caritas carries on this role as the agency set up by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference to respond to poverty and injustice in the world.
Caritas University was created in 2005.
which countries do caritas help?
Caritas University was created in 2005.
Caritas Academy ended in 2008.
Caritas Academy was created in 2006.
Caritas Hospital was created in 1962.
Caritas in Veritate was created in 2009.
Caritas Europa was created in 1971.
Caritas Pirckheimer died in 1532.
Caritas Pirckheimer was born in 1467.
Caritas is working in mostly Nepal this year 2011
They started when they saw how poor the poor were, and they felt sorry for them, so every lent they have a caritas box. And that's how caritas started.