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CARITAS

Caritas Internationalis is funded and owned by the Catholic Church which brings
together 165 national aid organizations, development and social service
charitable and humanitarian confederation.
The first Caritas was founded in 1897 in the German city of Cologne by the
priest Lorenz Werthmann. Caritas Internationalis is established in 1951 first as
Caritas International Conference in 1954 adopted the name Caritas
Internationalis with headquarters in Rome.
Caritas is dedicated to combating poverty, exclusion, intolerance and
discrimination.

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