Caritas Ticino
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| Founded | 1942 |
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| Focus | Humanitarian aid, International development and social service |
Area served | Switzerland and Worldwide |
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The Latin word Caritas (or Charitas) defines culture in the Christian dimension of love of God and human beings [1], and has been adopted as the name of all the charitable organizations/social that have developed in the Western world. In Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, in 1942 the Bishop Angelo Giuseppe Jelmini created a diocesan Caritas[citation needed], Caritas Ticino, to address the social problems of the post war period and especially in relation to refugees from war. Over the decades the organization has followed the development of the welfare state are becoming partners of the Canton Ticino. In particular it developed a social service specialist advice on debt, an employment program for the reintegration of the unemployed into employment with a hundred seats in the recycling industry and agriculture and industry information with a television production is unique for a charitable organization. The thought that drives social action organization refers to the Catholic social teaching of the church, and in particular the 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate of Pope Benedict XVI
, in addition to the lines left by the Bishop of Lugano Eugenio Coreccoin 1992[citation needed]. [2]
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Thought
"Qualunque dovesse essere la natura e il settore dei suoi interventi in campo sociale, la Caritas è chiamata, con urgenza sempre più grande, ad esprimere nella società due valori specifici del cristianesimo, la cui rilevanza sociale non è misurabile con criteri puramente razionali. Il primo è la gratuità verso l’uomo in difficoltà, poiché è stata gratuita anche la redenzione offertaci da Cristo. Il secondo è quello dell’eccedenza, poiché eccedente è l’amore di Cristo verso di noi. La carità non ha come misura il bisogno dell’altro, ma la ricchezza dell’amore di Dio. E’ infatti limitante guardare all’uomo e valutarlo a partire dal suo bisogno, poiché l’uomo è di più del suo bisogno".[2]