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Flowers and a sign reading "RIP USAID" are seen outside the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development on Feb. 7 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Robert Buckland
A scholarship program in Belize funded by U.S.A.I.D. gave me an incredible opportunity to change my life for the better. I saw it as proof that the United States was practicing love toward its neighbors.
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Today, nearly 2.5 million children worldwide are fed by Mary’s Meals, a global movement founded by Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow.
Photo of red "help" phone attached to wall next to sign depicting a wheelchair and marked "Area of Refuge" (iStock/Johnrob)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Calli Leighann Cook
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.
Somali internally-displaced persons (IDP) children look out from family's makeshift homes in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Around the world, health, nutrition, civil society and peace-building programs are unraveling, staff are being dismissed and the lights are being turned off.
FaithFaith and Reason
John Carr
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.
Workers carry food into a Catholic Relief Services warehouse near Mekele in Ethiopia's Tigray region Feb 15, 2021. (OSV News photo/Terhas Clark, CRS)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
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.”