Around the world, health, nutrition, civil society and peace-building programs are unraveling, staff are being dismissed and the lights are being turned off.
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Archbishop Wenski says deporting Haitians would be ‘unconscionable’ as TPS deadline looms
“Basically Haiti is a house on fire, and you can’t push people back into a burning house,” Archbishop Wenski said. “We have to deal with the fire and create conditions for people to go back home.”
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Trump vs. Zelensky: How the U.S. is moving away from Ukraine and toward Putin’s Russia
The White House began an effort to restore relations with Russia as President Trump repeats Russia’s narrative and talking points about the origins of the war on Ukraine.
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Report: How Jesuit Refugee Service is responding to the Trump foreign aid freeze
Halting the work of U.S.A.I.D. “will kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty.”
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Trump’s foreign aid freeze a ‘death sentence’ for many humanitarian groups
Most humanitarian agencies operate just ahead of insolvency in the best of times, Nate Radomski, the executive director of American Jesuits International, says.
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Catholic migration experts on Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship: ‘an affront to human dignity’
“It’s a cruel policy because if it were adopted, it would impact children mostly. It would impact future generations, and, as is consistent with his theme, it divides people. It would divide our country even further.”
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As cease-fire wobbles, new study finds Gaza death toll likely much higher than believed
A new report published in the U.K. medical journal The Lancet indicates that far from exaggerating the human suffering in Gaza, the ministry has likely underestimated the true number of the dead by as much as 41 percent.
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Debt relief advocates make their case to Joe Biden before he leaves the White House
More than 60 Catholic institutions, congregations and individuals have signed a letter imploring Mr. Biden to endorse a new round of assistance to the world’s most indebted nations from the International Monetary Fund.
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What will the fall of al-Assad mean for Syria’s ancient Christian community?
Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political reality being established by a Sunni militia that is still listed as a terror organization by the U.S. State Department.
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In England and Wales, a bill to legalize assisted suicide faces Catholic opposition
U.K. faith leaders oppose the assisted dying bill: “We believe that a truly compassionate response to the end of life lies in the provision of high-quality palliative care services to all who need them.”