Resources
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Foreign Aid Cuts Leave Afghan Refugees Adrift
Two State Department programs that helped Afghans refugees were halted when the new administration froze foreign aid. Now they are terminated.
United States Leaves Paris Agreement
For the second time in eight years, President Trump submitted the notification for the United States to leave the international accord that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.
Pilgrimages of Hope for Creation in Jubilee 2025
Join a nationwide initiative to inspire community prayer walks for healing, faith, and creation care.
Peru: Justice for Indigenous Protestors Killed by Police
Human rights organizations in Peru win in court on behalf of the victims of a massacre at political protests more than two years ago.
Hope for Nuclear Disarmament
As the Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight than ever before, nations meet in New York to work toward banning nuclear weapons, and arms control advocates urge Trump Administration to follow up on “denuclearization” comments.
Justice for Immigrants Says, “Protect the Persecuted!”
Our friends at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops prepared the following action to urging the protection of refugees.
Lenten Reflection Guide: A Jubilee of Hope
The guide, inspired by the 2025 Jubilee Year campaign for debt relief, offers reflections, small group questions, prayers, and actions based on each week’s Gospel reading. Lent begins this year on Ash Wednesday, March 5.
United States Cuts Short Deportation Protections for Haitians
Haitian advocates call on the Trump administration to reverse its decision to terminate protection from deportation for half a million Haitians in in the United States.
Letter from Pope Francis and Reply from U.S. Catholic Bishops
Pope Francis took the unusual step of publishing an open letter to the Catholic Bishops of the United States to thank them for their work for migrants and refugees and urge their steadfastness in their defense of the dignity in the face of political pressure and initiation of a program of mass deportation. The letter and the response from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ President that came the day after, are below.
Africa: 2025 Is a Critical Juncture
The Brookings Institute’s Foresight Africa report concludes that 2025 a critical year to address the urgent issues facing the fastest growing continent. The following is an excerpt from the report.
African Migrant Laborers Need Jubilee
Burdensome public debt in the continent has induced African youth to migrate for employment driving greater risks of exploitation and modern slavery.
Maryknoll Leaders Tell G20: Turn Debt Into Hope
More than 120 global faith leaders, including the leadership of the Maryknoll Sisters, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, and Maryknoll Lay Missioners, took the first step in the Jubilee 2025 Turn Debt into Hope campaign on Feb. 26 when they sent the following letter to the G20 finance ministers meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.
Resources
Webinar: “Guantánamo Uncovered” A conversation with the New York Times’ Serial Podcast and staff from the Center for Victims of Torture on Thursday, Jan. 9 at 7pm et. https://mogc.info/GU-1-9-25 Op-ed: Deportation plan must not raid churches, separate families, by Christian leaders published by The Arizona Republic. https://mogc.info/RF-Deportations Statement: “Rabbis Call on U.S. to Stop Transfer…
Report Reveals Global Healthcare Inequity
A Population Reference Bureau report shows a global dearth of primary care and its effects on life expectancy. The following article was published in the January – February 2025 issue of NewsNotes. Roughly 50 percent of the world’s population lacks access to good primary health care, according to the Population Reference Bureau, a non-profit organization…
Finance Feud Clouds UN Climate Change Conference
The UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, will be remembered as the moment climate advocates stayed strong in the face of weak commitments from wealthy, polluting nations. The following article was published in the January – February 2025 issue of NewsNotes. The global association of 198 member states that gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan…
UN Biodiversity Conference Lets Indigenous Lead
Sara Kennel, climate advocacy intern, shares the outcomes of the UN conference on biodiversity. The following article was published in the January – February 2025 issue of NewsNotes. In the very last hours of the 16th bi-annual UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, a celebration ensued with enthusiastically raised hands, tears, hugs, and chants…
UN Mulls Permanent African Security Council Seats
The international body that addresses peace and security currently has no permanent seats for the often underrepresented and historically marginalized continent. The following article was published in the January – February 2025 issue of NewsNotes. On September 13, 2024, the United States declared to the UN General Assembly its support of the creation of two…