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Telley Sadia, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)’s country representative for Sudan.

Cholera crisis deepens in Sudan amid war and aid blockades

Aug 26, 2025

By Agnes Aineah

“This is one of the biggest humanitarian situations in the world which, unfortunately, has not received much international press,” a... Read more

170 years after pandemic, Pittsburgh Catholics continue cholera Mass tradition 

Aug 19, 2020

By Perry West

For more than 170 years, Pittsburgh Catholics have observed a day of thanksgiving for their parish’s deliverance from a cholera... Read more

The silver crown of Our Lady; St. Francis Xavier College Church.

A sickness and a silver crown: How Saint Louis University survived the cholera epidemic of 1849

Mar 25, 2020

In the basement of St. Francis Xavier College Church on the campus of Saint Louis University stands a statue of... Read more