Jubilee of the Poor USCCB Resource Packet (English)
Backgrounder on International Poverty-Reducing Humanitarian and Development Assistance, January 2025
Testimony to U.S. Senate on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations, May 2024
Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations, May 2024
Letter to Congress Regarding the FY 2025 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations, April 25, 2024
Pope: Poverty is a scandal!
Letter to Congress on President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), July 14, 2023
On World Day of Poor, be poor like those you serve, pope says
Letter to Congress Regarding FY 2024 Appropriations for State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, June 9, 2023
Letters to Congress Concerning the FY 2024 Agriculture Appropriations Legislation, June 8, 2023
USCCB, CCUSA, and CRS Letter to Congress on the Debt Limit, May 17, 2023
Testimony Before U.S. House of Representatives Regarding FY 2024 State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations, April 14, 2023
Catholic Social Ministry Gathering Background Materials, 2023
Backgrounder on International Poverty-Reducing Humanitarian and Development Assistance, January 2023
Listen to the cries of the newborn Prince of Peace, pope says on Christmas
Pope: Do good this Christmas
Bring hope to others, justice for the poor, pope says at Christmas Mass
Letter to U.S. Department of State Regarding North Korea, February 12, 2019
Letters to Congress Regarding FY 2023 Agriculture Appropriations Legislation, June 8, 2022
Letter to Congress Regarding FY 2023 Appropriations, July 18, 2022
Letter to Congress Requesting Increase in FY 2023 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations, June 28, 2022
Testimony to Congress on FY 2023 State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations, June 3, 2022 and June 30, 2022
Backgrounder on International Poverty-Reducing Humanitarian and Development Assistance, January 2022
Written Testimony Regarding Appropriations for State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, June 9, 2021
Joint COMECE-USCCB Declaration Towards a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership: Shared Responsibility for the Whole Human Family, June 2021
Letter to Congress Regarding State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs in Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations
USCCB-Jubilee USA Network Letter to President Biden on International Debt Relief, February 23, 2021
USCCB and CRS Chart for International Poverty-Reducing Development and Humanitarian Accounts, January 20, 2021
Backgrounder on International Assistance and Diplomacy, February 2021
Backgrounder on Conflict and Hunger in the Sahel, January 2021
Backgrounder on Sustainable Development Goals, September 2015
Letter to Congress on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations, March 17, 2017
Letter to Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano (CELAM) Regarding Hearing Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Extractives Industries, March 15, 2017
Backgrounder on Trade, 2020
Backgrounder on Fighting Poverty and Promoting Peace in Our Families, Communities, and Common Home
Creating on the Margins
Letter to Congressional Committees on Appropriation on COVID 19, April 9, 2020
Letter to President Trump on G20 Debt Payment Moratorium, April 8, 2020
Backgrounder on International Assistance and Diplomacy, January 2020
Backgrounder on Trade
USCCB-CRS Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo Regarding Proposals to Condition International Assistance Based on Promotion and Protection of Religious Freedom
USCCB-CRS Letter to Congress Supporting the Global Child Thrive Act
Letter to Congress on Global Child Thrive Act, November 14, 2019
Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo on Rescission of International Assistance Funds, August 15, 2019
Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo Regarding Rescission of International Assistance Funds
News Release: USCCB Committee Chairman of International Justice and Peace and the CEO of Catholic Relief Service respond to Administration’s call for rescissions of $2-4 billion of funds for State Department and USAID
Testimony Before U.S. Senate on FY 2020 State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations, June 3, 2019
Letter to Congress on FY 2020 State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations for International Assistance, May 21, 2019
Written Testimony Regarding FY 2020 Appropriations Submitted to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs
Letter to Congress Urging Opposition to Proposed Cuts to Foreign Assistance