Crs 75th Anniversary

Nikki Gamer: Hi, everyone, this is Nikki Gamer for Catholic Relief Services. And thanks for tuning into Behind the Story, a podcast series that gives you a backstage pass to putting your faith into action for global impact. In this episode, we’ll be talking to Sean Callahan, president and CEO, about his decades-long commitment to making […]

Hear about the courageous and unlikely adventures of Monsignor Wilson Kaiser as he traveled across sub-Saharan Africa in a VW bus, establishing CRS’ first country programs—and relationships that would last decades.

High above New York City, 20 CRS staff are hard at work in the Empire State Building helping World War II refugees. Out of nowhere, a plane crashes right into their offices. Hear a survivor’s incredible tale and find out how CRS came to be in the building in the first place.

The beginnings of Catholic Relief Services, then War Relief Services, is revealed from two vantage points: a Polish refugee sent to the modest colony of Santa Rosa, Mexico, and from the commanding view of the Empire State Building in New York City. It’s 1943.