Debates over a plan to reorganize the State Department should seek to improve American "efforts in the world at diplomacy and global citizenship," and should prioritize human rights and humanitarian efforts, a leading foreign policy expert told OSV News.| Catholic Review
The confirmation of Brian Burch, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, was blocked May 13 amid a hold by a Senate Democrat on State Department nominees in protest of the Trump administration's closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development.| Catholic Review
Catholic Relief Services said May 21 that most of its projects under a federal international food aid program were terminated, leaving hundreds of thousands of children more vulnerable to hunger.| Catholic Review
Hundreds of Catholic humanitarian workers are rallying to prevent further -- and more permanent -- reductions in U.S. federal funding for international aid, which has been slashed under the Trump administration as part of its "America First" policy.| Catholic Review
A prominent Catholic humanitarian agency in the Middle East has expressed concern over sudden cuts to U.S. financial assistance affecting its ministries aiding the displaced, refugees and the impoverished.| Catholic Review
Journalists dismissed by the Trump administration’s gutting of the federally funded Voice of America broadcaster “will not be silenced,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia.| catholicreview.org