Even during ordinary times, a lack of inclusive transportation can mean missing essential health appointments; during an emergency such as the California wildfires, it can be fatal.
Humanitarian Aid
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
No waivers for Catholic relief efforts: The devastating impacts of the end of U.S.A.I.D.
Around the world, health, nutrition, civil society and peace-building programs are unraveling, staff are being dismissed and the lights are being turned off.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Trump, Musk and Vance target the most vulnerable and attack Catholic ministries—and it’s working
The Trump administration’s recent attacks on the resources and structures that serve the poor and on the religious institutions that serve the most vulnerable are unprecedented in their scale, pace and human impact.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
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.”
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
My journey from USAID officer to Jesuit priest
When I worked for U.S.A.I.D., I was not a churchgoer, but the moral vision was clear: We Americans, in our affluence, must reach out to those in need with generosity.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We can be proud of the work of Catholic Relief Services, as Catholics—and as Americans
I cannot defend every entity that receives funding from U.S.A.I.D. I cannot even speak on behalf of C.R.S. But I can tell you what I saw when I traveled overseas to report on their work.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
I led Catholic Relief Services. I’ve seen USAID projects change lives.
In partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development, CRS saves lives, empowers people and creates goodwill for the United States. All for less than one percent of our national budget.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Congolese bishop condemns ‘dire humanitarian situation’ after deadly attack in Goma
Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed groups have competed for power and control of this vast nation’s potential fortune.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
JD Vance says foreign aid is ‘spreading atheism,’ defends cuts at religious freedom summit
Cuts to foreign assistance directly impacted the work of some of the religious freedom organizations at the summit. USAID’s top NGO recipient for fiscal years 2013-2022 was Catholic Relief Services at $4.6 billion.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
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.