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by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Caritas Internationalis, Church in the US, Congress, Economic crisis, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, Poverty, President Joe Biden, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Advocates are skeptical that a recently announced fall meeting between the U.S. and Puerto Rican governments on the Caribbean nation’s economic future will actually have any impact.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 20, 2022 | Africa bishops, Church in Africa, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, SECAM | 0 |
With the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group spring meetings underway, the bishops of Africa are calling for more support from the world’s finance leaders.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 14, 2022 | Archbishop Roberto González Nieves, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Jubilee USA Network, News, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Religious leaders in Puerto Rico have welcomed a debt restructuring plan that will reduce the stress on the U.S. territory’s economy and called for more focused efforts to reduce poverty and prioritize economic development. “Puerto Rico has now the opportunity for a path forward, and to forge a comprehensive strategy […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 27, 2021 | Biden Administration, Caribbean, Church in the US, COVID-19, developing world, G20, Inequality, Jubilee USA Network, Latin America, lead, News | 0 |
Just in time for the convening of world leaders at the G20 Summit in Rome, two advocacy organizations have launched a database that illuminates existing vulnerabilities and growing challenges developing nations face due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, G-20, G20, Jubilee USA Network, News | 0 |
The questions facing the Group of 20 nations, or G-20, range from charting a path to ease the debt burden of poor countries to ensuring more equitable distribution of vaccines in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2021 | Afghanistan, Bishop David J. Malloy, G7, IMF, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, USCCB | 0 |
The International Monetary Fund on Aug. 23 withheld $455 million in emergency COVID-19 relief funding from Afghanistan, after the Taliban’s takeover of the country forced the organization to withhold its recognition of the Afghan government.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 7, 2021 | Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Biden Administration, Church in the US, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, IMF, Inequality, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News | 0 |
If world leaders don’t take steps this fall to get COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest countries, Eric LeCompte, the executive director of Jubilee USA Network, fears the darkest days of the pandemic lie ahead.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 8, 2021 | Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, Vaccines, Vatican | 0 |
Two U.S. faith organizations on the front lines of the global coronavirus response stand with the federal government in support of waiving intellectual property (IP) protections for COVID-19 vaccines, in an effort to help poorer countries get more doses.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 19, 2021 | Archbishop Roberto González Nieves, Bishop David J. Malloy, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, Economic crisis, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, President Joe Biden | 0 |
For the first time in at least 30 years Tuesday, interfaith leaders – including two Catholic bishops – got a seat at the table to discuss global issues with a U.S. Treasury Secretary.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Bishop David J. Malloy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, G-20, G20, Jubilee USA Network, News | 0 |
Two religious leaders, including the chairman of a U.S. bishops’ committee, urged the Biden administration to support the release of $3 trillion in global reserve funds to help developing countries respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 17, 2021 | Catholic Charities USA, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, President Joe Biden, Puerto Rico | 0 |
There’s been enough earthquakes in Puerto Rico over the past year and a half that the sensation has stuck with Archbishop Roberto González Nieves of San Juan. Sometimes, González said, he even thinks the earth is shaking when it’s not.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 15, 2021 | Church in the US, Faith-based organizations, Jubilee USA Network, lead, Melissa Rogers, NETWORK Lobby, News, President Joe Biden | 0 |
The Biden administration signed an executive order Sunday to reestablish the White House Office of Faith-based Neighborhood Partnerships from the Obama administration – something faith organizations have long hoped for.
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