"We are aware of the crisis of confidence his resignation will set in motion," Archbishop Léonard said.
The comments suggested that Mr. Chen was not fully aware of the crisis his comments caused the day before.
The four corporations cited by Oxfam each said, in varying ways, that as buyers they were well aware of the crisis among coffee growers.
Jerseyans seem to be aware of the crisis: 56percentt of those polled in a Rutgers survey said they would pay higher taxes so that everyone in the state could have health insurance.
The Vatican response has been so low-key that a surprising number of the Vatican rank and file are still only dimly aware of the crisis in the American Catholic Church, these priests say.
In the absence of adequate state intervention, charities such as the Elton John Aids Foundation are doing what they can to fill the gaps, often working with local Ukraine municipal authorities that are more aware of the crisis in their midst.
Since then, however, the actor, who first became aware of the crisis while making the 2004 movie "Hotel Rwanda," has found his activist voice and written (with John Prendergast) a book, "Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond".
