CAFOD 50 years timeline

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England wins World Cup

First Family Fast Day collects £6,673 for Dominica mother-and-baby clinic

CAFOD becomes member of Caritas Internationalis. £100,000 spent on 74 projects

Family Fast Day registered as ‘CFOD’: £32,000 collected for Dominica project

CAFOD joins CIDSE – group of Catholic agencies from Europe and North America

First autumn Fast Day (later became Harvest Fast Day) Bishops in England and Wales mandate CAFOD to deal with all requests for overseas aid

Bishop Grant first Chair Meeting of Hierarchy of England and Wales in Rome and formal approval to establish CAFOD; Sir Hugh Ellis-Rees first Administrator

Nigeria-Biafra war Six Day War in Israel

CAFOD WORLD 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 CHURCH The second Vatican Council 1962-1965 Berlin Wall built

Pacem in Terris Encyclical Death of Pope John XXIII; Election of Pope Paul VI

Yuri Gagarin became first man in space

Assassination of US President Kennedy

Apostolic Constitution Paenitemini rules on Friday abstinence

Papal Encyclical Populorum Progressio on the Development of Peoples

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr Neil Armstrong first man on moon Medellin Conference of Latin American Bishops: birth of Liberation Theology

1960s

1970s Fall of Saigon marks end of Vietnam war

10 year anniversary.

1st issue of CAFOD Journal; 245 projects in 45 countries; 10 staff Idi Amin seizes power in military coup in Uganda

President Salvador Allende of Chile overthrown by General Pinochet Office moves to Soho Square from Kinnerton Street

Noel Charles becomes Administrator

CAFOD WORLD 1970 CHURCH

Appointment of Archbishop Basil Hume, Westminster

Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II First campaign launched on the Philippines

1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh after Liberation War

Vatican documents A Call to Action and Justice in the World

First mobile phone call

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia

UK adopts decimal currency UK enters European Union

Fall of Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

Robin Hood becomes Administrator

The year of three Popes

First overseas staff member in Chile

Civil war in Sri Lanka starts between Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the government

Caritas asks CAFOD to lead a worldwide programme on HIV and AIDS

Live Aid concert raised £150m

Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated in El Salvador

AIDS epidemic first recognised

CAFOD WORLD CHURCH

Band Aid charity single ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas?’

Julian Filochowski becomes Administrator (later known as Director) Bishop Hitchen appointed Chairman Office moves to Stockwell Rd

Cardinal Paulo Arns delivers first Pope Paul VI lecture

Ethiopia famine

Emergency response to Ethiopia famine

Death of Bishop Hitchen; Bishop Crowley appointed Chairman Sudan famine

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Pastoral visit of Pope John Paul II to UK

Brandt report on development issues

Falklands War

First attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II Independence of Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)

1980s

Cardinal Basil Hume visits refugee camps in Ethiopia

Report published on hole in ozone layer Catholic community raises more than £4m for Ethiopia emergency

Papal Encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis Black Monday stock market crash

Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine

Fall of Berlin Wall

1990s USSR dissolved; President Mikhail Gorbachev resigns A million people died in Rwanda genocide

CAFOD Albania formed (first overseas office) Gulf War

CAFOD WORLD 1990 CHURCH

Kosovo Appeal raises £8 million Pope Paul VI Lecture - Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi

Clergy Revue held at Barbican to raise money for CAFOD

Rio Earth Summit

Handover of Hong Kong to Chinese government

CAFOD offices set up in Kenya and Zimbabwe

1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 First Fairtrade product launched

Papal Encyclical Centesimus Annus

Catholic Bishops publish key policy document ‘The Common Good and the Catholic Church’s Social Teaching’ Kyoto protocol on the environment

Death of Cardinal Basil Hume Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland

Release of Nelson Mandela from prison CAFOD takes part in human chain around Birmingham G8 Summit 12 regional organisers employed in UK dioceses

Execution of Saddam Hussein

East Timor declares independence Indian Ocean tsunami

Appointment of Archbishop Murphy-O’Connor, Westminster

Chris Bain appointed Director

Bishop Rawsthorne appointed Chairman

250,000 people rally to MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY in Edinburgh

Darfur emergency response

New Covenant with the poor established in every diocese

CAFOD WORLD CHURCH

2000

Pope John Paul II visits Holy Land

2001

Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel third world debt UN Millennium Development Goals set

Floods devastate Mozambique

Attack on World Trade Center

2002

2003

2004

Invasion of Iraq Civil war breaks out in Darfur, Sudan

Pope John Paul II nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Death of Elspeth Orchard, one of the first Fast Day founders

Tsunami emergency response

2005 Gleneagles summit debt cancellation agreed

Commission for Africa report published

2006 Deus Caritas Est encyclical

Catholic community raise £10m for CAFOD Tsunami appeal Death of Pope John Paul II Election of Pope Benedict XVI

2000s

2010s Mass of Thanksgiving for 50 years, Westminster Cathedral Death of Jacquie Stuyt, one of the first Fast Day founders

Appointment of Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Westminster

Programme in Eastern Europe and Balkans ends

50th anniversary of Fast Day

East Africa crisis Pakistan floods response

Bishop John Arnold appointed Chairman

Head office moves to Romero House

CAFOD WORLD 2007 CHURCH

Global financial crisis

livesimply marks 40 years since Populorum Progressio

2008

2009

Papal Encyclical Caritas in Veritate on economic and social issues

Inauguration of Barack Obama, first black US President

2010 Pakistan floods

Catholic community in England and Wales raises ÂŁ4.7m for CAFOD East Africa appeal

Pope Benedict visits UK Earthquake in Haiti

UN Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen

2011

50th anniversary of CAFOD

2012

Olympic Games in London

Sudan referendum to form two nations

Japan earthquake and tsunami

Beatification of Ven John Paul II

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II