Please join Catholic Relief Services and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for an online Catholics Confront Global Poverty discussion on: Hope Springs Eternal: Shaping a Budget that Confronts Global Poverty Stephen Colecchi – Director of the Office of International Justice and Peace, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Bill O’Keefe Senior Director for Advocacy, [...]
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Thanks to you, some good news on the budget; but more advocacy ahead! Thanks to your thousands of e-mails, calls, faxes, letters and personal visits to Congress over the last several months, we helped prevent deeper proposed cuts to life-saving and poverty-fighting services around the world. The poverty-focused international assistance accounts that fund services such [...]
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What’s the Issue? Poverty-focused domestic and international assistance that saves lives around the world is seriously at risk because of proposed congressional spending cuts in FY 2011. There are also disproportionate cuts in programs that serve the poor in our own nation. Congress must act before April 8 or the government will shut down. A [...]
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Imagine: Congress is considering slashing funding to assist the people of Haiti who are still reeling from a devastating January 2010 earthquake. A program that provides health and nutrition to 19,000 pregnant and lactating women and their children is in serious jeopardy. In southern Sudan, scheduled to become the world’s newest nation later this year, [...]
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Catholic advocates are urging their grassroots base in dioceses across the country to help save U.S.-funded programs that aid the world’s poor. Such programs face funding cuts of more than 25 percent as Congress debates how to save money and reduce the federal deficit. The problem with the budget resolution passed by the U.S. House [...]
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For those of us who couldn’t make it, and those who want a look back, U.S. Catholic posted this video from an international issues portion of the event. Find the gathering’s website here.
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CRS President Ken Hackett and Bishop Howard Hubbard, Chairman of the USCCB International Justice and Peace Committee express the Church’s thanks for the Obama Administration’s hard work and dedication to the cause of peace and Sudan and urge ongoing engagement. The Honorable Hillary Clinton Secretary of State Dear Secretary Clinton: As Chairman of Committee on [...]
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CRS staff visit a new greenhouse in Sare Ahangaran, which introduced vegetables into the local diet. Photo courtesy of Lisa Bandari/Aga Khan Foundation CRS Senior Legislative Specialist Jill Marie Gerschutz filed this report following a recent trip to Afghanistan: Out of gratitude to CRS for its work and the importance Muslims and Afghan culure place [...]
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Contour walls built to reduce erosion and restore the water table line a mountainside in Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of Lisa Bandari/Aga Khan Foundation CRS Senior Legislative Specialist Jill Marie Gerschutz filed this report following a recent trip to Afghanistan: It is hard to imagine a winter in Sare Ahangaran; perhaps hibernation is a close parallel. [...]
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“Peace in Sudan and a long-term commitment to reconstruction efforts in Haiti were among the issues of social justice for which 20 Cabrini College students lobbied U.S. senate and house members on Capitol Hill earlier this month.” Check out the rest of the story on the Cabrini College website.
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