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Catholic Bishops, CRS Condemn Proposed Foreign Aid Budget Cuts
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Catholic Bishops, CRS Condemn Proposed Foreign Aid Budget Cuts

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by on Aug 03, 2011 in Featured, Those in Need
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The foreign assistance appropriations bill proposed by a House subcommittee “makes morally unacceptable, even deadly cuts to poverty-focused humanitarian and development assistance,” said Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace, and Ken Hackett, President of Catholic Relief Services, in a […]

Ensuring Women’s Safety and Dignity Where Bathrooms Are Scarce
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Ensuring Women’s Safety and Dignity Where Bathrooms Are Scarce

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by on Mar 22, 2011 in Featured, Those in Need
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“During the floods, we saw funerals for women who’d died of snakebites,” says Jaya Menon, a Catholic Relief Services staffer working in India during severe floods of autumn 2010. “The women had to wait till evening to go to the bathroom outside, and in the dark, they couldn’t see the snakes.” CRS projects that build […]