Health, Rehabilitation & HIV

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One Church in action.

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Dialysis Treatment

Cause : Kidney Failure

Need : Donation, Prayers, Volunteers

Persatuan Kebajikan Haemodialisis St. Anne

This centre serves renal patients from B40 group, irrespective of race, nationality and religion.

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Cancer Care

Cause : Cancer

Need : Volunteers, Prayers, Volunteers

Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital

Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital is a not-for-profit Catholic hospital serving all persons, regardless of nationality, race, belief, or income, with love, respect, compassion, and care.

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Women & Children

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Shelter

Cause : HIV/AIDS

Need : Donation, Prayers, Volunteers

Mercy Home

Mercy Home is a shelter home for women and children living with HIV/AIDS.

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Prisoner

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Word of God

Cause : Criminal, Drugs

Need : Donation, Prayers, Volunteers

Penang Diocesan Prison Ministry

This is a Catholic Church's ministry to share the Good News of Jesus Christ to the hopeless and helpless prisoners who can't seem to come out from their problems. We work together to create awareness of social problems that lead to poverty and help the prisoners to reintegrate back to society.

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Migrants

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Medical

Cause : Undocumented

Need : Volunteers, Prayers, Volunteers

Medical Mission

Many migrants especially those who came to Malaysia without a valid documentation will face severe problems. We work with parish Caritas, NGOs and Governments to assist them to get their travel documents, treat those who are sick and rescue those who are in trouble.

Poor

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Screening & Shelter

Cause : Cancer

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NCSM-Caritas Home of Hope

We work with National Cancer Society Malaysia to provide cancer screening to the poor Malaysians and refugees through parish Caritas. On the diocese level, a shelter home was set up by NCSM to provide complimentary accommodation and counselling support for the underprivileged cancer patients and their caregivers, regardless of race and religion.

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Social Decline in Malaysia

The social dimensions of global change include the effects of technological innovations on employment, social exclusion, an inequitable distribution and consumption of energy and other services, social breakdown, increased violence and a rise in new forms of social aggression, drug trafficking, growing drug use by young people, and the loss of identity.

These are signs that the growth of the past two centuries has not always led to an integral development and an improvement in the quality of life.

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new cancer cases were reported over five years from 2017 to 2021

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Malaysians could be on dialysis by 2040

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Adults and children living with HIV

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Malaysians teen currently using drugs

“I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.”

~ Matthew 25: 35-36

How Caritas Work

Be a good samaritan

The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. It’s about a traveler who is stripped of his clothing, beaten, and left half-dead alongside the road. After others have passed by and ignored his plight, a Samaritan happens upon the traveler. Samaritans and Jews despised each other, but the Samaritan helps the injured man despite their differences.

Help with the weak

Caritas support ministries of social concerns in the church to end the illness and tragic loss of life caused by HIV and AIDS. It brings medical, social, and emotional support to people living with HIV and AIDS as well as spiritual care.

Assist those who face distress with love

Caritas works with ministries at the church to provide pastoral care and treatment for those who are diagnosed with cancer and diabetic, and aftercare programmes for ex-prisoners and those recovering from substance abuse which include halfway homes, community homes and trainings, to support them towards reintegration into the society.

From The Catholic Social Teaching

Dignity of the human person.

God created man and woman in his image. Genesis 1:26-31

The Catholic Church proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity of the human person is the foundation of a moral vision for society. This belief is the foundation of all the principles of our social teaching.

In our society, human life is under direct attack from abortion and euthanasia. The value of human life is being threatened by cloning, embryonic stem cell research, and the use of the death penalty. The intentional targeting of civilians in war or terrorist attacks is always wrong.

Catholic teaching also calls on us to work to avoid war. Nations must protect the right to life by finding increasingly effective ways to prevent conflicts and resolve them by peaceful means. We believe that every person is precious, that people are more important than things, and that the measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person.

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The Catholic church’s mission is to carry out and continue the work of Jesus Christ on earth. Therefore, we seek to work with communities, non-governmental organisations, and local authorities to promote an inclusive and sustainable development for all.

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What is Caritas

Caritas is the charitable arm of the Roman Catholic Church. It is to spearhead the church’s social mission, to respond to humanitarian crisis, promote integral human development and advocate on the causes of poverty and violence.

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Caritas Penang comes under the jurisdiction of The Titular Roman Catholic Bishop of Penang.