Tag: Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee Strengthens International Funding for Disasters, Refugees
May 24, 2012
BALTIMORE, Md., May 24, 2012—Catholic Relief Services congratulates the Senate Appropriations Committee for maintaining and even strengthening funding for international poverty-focused development and humanitarian programs, including significant gains for funding disaster assistance and aid to migrants and refugees. “Americans once again are showing our commitment to sending a lifeboat to those in need, even in [...]
Bp. Guglielmone of Charleston, SC: Helping the Poor Helps us All
May 3, 2012
Bishop Robert Guglielmone of the Diocese of Charleston, S.C., has an op-ed in this morning’s edition of the Post and Courier urging Congress to preserve poverty-focused international assistance programs in the federal budget. I do not envy our elected officials these days. They are faced with many difficult choices, with many pressures coming from different [...]
CRS and U.S. Bishops: Preserve Aid to the World's Poor
November 9, 2011
CRS President Ken Hackett and Bishop Howard Hubbard, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, wrote to members of the U.S. Senate this week, urging them to preserve funding for poverty-focused humanitarian and development assistance in the budget appropriation for the 2012 fiscal year. A Senate vote on [...]
CRS Action Alert: Tell the Senate to Protect Victims of Trafficking
September 8, 2011
Catholic Relief Services and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are urging their action network to contact their senators and urge support of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Trafficking of people is a modern day scourge that afflicts millions of people, particularly women and children, around the world resulting in extreme forms of sexual exploitation [...]