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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This has been an amazing time in our efforts to raise awareness about the urgency of the situation in Sudan and to ensure that our elected officials are paying attention to this situation. President Obama recently participated in a high level meeting on Sudan with other heads of state at the United Nations where he [...]
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What if you had been given the chance to prevent the genocide in Rwanda? What would you have done? What if you had the chance to bring peace to Sudan? What would you do? Sudan is at a life or death crossroads and the fate of its people hangs in the balance. In early January, [...]
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Sudan is at a crossroads. The volatile situation in the country – not just in the Darfur region, but also the tenuous peace between northern and southern Sudan brought about by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) – is becoming more serious. The country is bracing for a referendum early next year when southern Sudan [...]
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Please join the next a Catholics Confront Global Poverty webcast: Haiti: Rebuilding with Hope on Wednesday, September 15 from 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Join us for an update and discussion about the current situation in Haiti and the prospects for the future, including:
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