Biden to award Medal of Freedom to Biles, McCain, Giffords
President Joe Biden will present the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people.
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by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Biden Administration, Church in the US, NETWORK Lobby, News | 0 |
President Joe Biden will present the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration laws, NETWORK Lobby, News, Title 42 | 0 |
The much-anticipated May 23 deadline on Title 42 came and went at the U.S.-Mexico border without any changes after a federal judge blocked the government from lifting the health measure instituted during the pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 15, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, NETWORK Lobby, News, U.S.-Mexico border, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
A Ukrainian family who was repeatedly denied entry into the U.S. by Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border was allowed entry March 10, bringing back debate about a public health measure that keeps migrants out.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic social teaching, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, NETWORK Lobby, News, U.S. Congress | 0 |
Any number of lobbies in Washington issue reports scoring lawmakers on how they voted on a host of issues near and dear to their respective organizations.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | Advent, Asylum seekers, Biden Administration, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, NETWORK Lobby, News, President Joe Biden, Religious Sisters | 0 |
A group of nuns sang Advent hymns in front of the White House Dec. 3, hoping to get the ear of the president so he could consider lifting what they see as a health rule that hurts people trying to find refuge at the southern border.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Haiti, immigrants and refugees, NETWORK Lobby, News, Sister Norma Pimentel, Texas-Mexican border, US-Mexico Border | 0 |
Faith-based groups have been scrambling to keep up with fast-paced developments in the Haitian migrant crisis, trying to assist those in need while assailing the harsh Border Patrol tactics employed against them.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2021 | Arizona, Asylum seekers, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, NETWORK Lobby, News | 0 |
A joint report by the Kino Border Initiative and Network, the Catholic social justice lobby, details complaints lodged against U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents against those seeking asylum at the Arizona-Mexico border.
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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 5, 2021 | Church in the US, Faith-based organizations, Jubilee USA Network, lead, NETWORK Lobby, News, President Joe Biden | 0 |
On January 21, the day after Joe Biden’s inauguration, 50 faith organizations called on the president to restore an Obama administration White House office that would serve as a liaison between the organizations and lawmakers.
It’s only been two weeks into Biden’s term, but they haven’t gotten a response either way.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 22, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, NETWORK, NETWORK Lobby, News, U.S. Congress | 0 |
What had been separate Democratic and Republican coronavirus relief bills became a bipartisan effort thanks to Congress’ Problem Solvers Caucus, according to a lobbyist for Network, a Catholic social justice lobby.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 17, 2020 | 2020 election, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Democratic Party, Father James Martin, NETWORK Lobby, News | 0 |
The Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., who criticized President Donald Trump after he held a Bible aloft at a photo op at a historic church in her diocese, is among the diverse group of faith leaders selected by Democrats to speak at their presidential nominating convention.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 31, 2020 | 2020 election, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, faith and politics, Faithful Citizenship, NETWORK, NETWORK Lobby, News | 0 |
Steven Millies, a scholar who explores the Catholic Church’s relationship to politics, feels more optimistic today than he has in a long time about young people in this country voting in a national election.
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