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February 8, 2025

U.S. Bishops Conference Lays Off 50 Amid Migrant Funding ‘Uncertainty’, by Zelda Caldwell

by Zelda Caldwellz, CNA - USCCB's spokesperson Chieko Noguchi... said the job cuts were due to "continuing uncertainty regarding refugee resettlement and the overall future of those programs."... The layoffs mark an escalation of a deepening political and financial crisis for the USCCB and its affiliated charitable agencies, whose decades-long role providing essential services for migrants and refugees largely paid with federal funds has come under scrutiny from President Donald Trump's administration.

February 8, 2025

WHO Should Pay to Help Migrants? by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Any accurate measure of wealth includes debts as well as assets. By that ordinary standard the US government is poor: spending money it does not have, running a budget it cannot afford. And since the current debate over immigration is primarily a debate about the policies of the federal government, the argument that the US government is the “richest nation on earth” cannot stand.

February 8, 2025

Saint of the Day for February 8: St. Josephine Bakhita (c. 1869 – Feb. 8, 1947)

By Franciscan Media - For many years, Josephine Bakhita was a slave but her spirit was always free and eventually that spirit prevailed... Born in Olgossa in the Darfur region of southern Sudan, Josephine was kidnapped at the age of 7, sold into slavery and given the name Bakhita, which means fortunate.

February 7, 2025

Trump Creates Task Force to ‘Move Heaven and Earth to Defend Rights of Christians and Religious Believers’, by Craig Bannister

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV - At the 2025 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced an executive order to create a new task force to end government persecution of religious believers, such as the Christians who were targeted by the Biden Administration... While America has historically been a haven for people of faith, the past four years were very difficult for them, particularly Christians, Trump said: “Unfortunately, in recent years we've seen this sacred liberty threatened like never before in American history. ....

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