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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