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Archbishop Hartmayer urges Atlanta Catholics to support Catholic Relief Services

In a pre-Lenten letter, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., urges Atlanta Catholics to support the important work of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) amid a freeze of funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.

• Trump administration terminates US bishops’ refugee resettlement contract

  

  By GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV News
  Published February 28, 2025

  The Trump administration “immediately terminated” its contract with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for refugee resettlement, effective Feb. 27, according to letters issued by the U.S. State Department a day earlier.

• Bishops sue Trump administration on halting refugee resettlement funds

  

  By MARIA-PIA CHIN, OSV News
  Published February 20, 2025

  The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Feb. 18 over the suspension of funding of refugee resettlement assistance.

• Audits show claims the church profits from refugee work ‘just wrong’

  

  By KATE SCANLON, OSV News   
  Published February 13, 2025

  Claims that the U.S. bishops’ conference profits from its partnership with the government to assist refugees that qualify for federal assistance, and that the church facilitates illegal immigration are “just wrong,” said William Canny, the U.S. bishops’ migration director.