We are so very pleased to report an important victory in protecting the lives and dignity of our brothers and sisters around the world. Congress finally passed, and the President signed into law, the final spending bill for the fiscal year 2012 that includes funding for poverty-focused international assistance. In an extraordinary turn-about, funding levels [...]
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From the Tulsa World’s editorial page: By Martha J. Wyatt I lived in San Francisco in 1989 and experienced the Loma Prieta earthquake. Feeling my home here in Tulsa rattle and shake, I was again reminded of how a natural disaster brings a community together to repair the damage to structures and psyches. In September, [...]
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The Senate has begun consideration of funding levels for life-saving poverty-focused international assistance. Act on your Catholic faith to care for your brothers and sisters who are hungry, thirsty, seeking refuge from war and famine by continuing your advocacy on this life or death issue. Learn more and act here.
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As Congress prepares for a high-stakes battle over federal spending, religious leaders are lobbying senators to preserve foreign aid as a moral obligation. “We’re talking about lives — great numbers of lives that are saved with minimal input on our part,” said the Most Rev. Denis Madden, the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Baltimore and [...]
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Today, on All Soul’s Day we commemorate the faithful departed. As Catholics, we believe that we can help the souls of those who have gone before us by offering prayers and deeds on behalf of those who have died. We can also act to prevent future needless deaths due to hunger, preventable diseases, lack of [...]
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“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives…to let the oppressed go free…” (Lk 4:18-19) Human trafficking is considered modern day slavery. It begins with a lure–a promise of something so much better than [...]
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What’s the issue? Your Catholic faith teaches you to protect people who are hungry, thirsty, seeking refuge and care. Life-saving poverty-focused international assistance that fights hunger, disease and makes communities facing natural disasters more resilient, such as those in East Africa and South Asia, makes up less than 1% of the U.S. federal budget. However, [...]
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Here’s a way to have an immediate say in Sudan’s future and the lives of millions of people: What is the issue? After decades of war between the north and south, the people of southern Sudan voted to become the world’s newest nation on July 9, 2011. However, the long-term peace and stability in all [...]
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Watch the recording of the latest Catholics Confront Global Poverty webcast – Hope Springs Eternal: Shaping a Budget that Confronts Global Poverty. Congress recently passed and the President signed into law the budget that funds U.S. government activities through September 30, 2011. The FY 2011 budget cut poverty-focused international assistance by more than 8 percent. [...]
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What’s the issue? A new peace initiative by a group of former Israeli government, intelligence and security officials along with the Arab Peace Initiative, and the Geneva Accord, offer key principles and ideas for negotiations to achieve comprehensive Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace. Achieving peace is urgent given the current stalemate in negotiations and the threat of escalating [...]
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