Lifesaving HIV/AIDS program’s future uncertain amid stop-and-start foreign aid pause January 29, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News The future of PEPFAR, the U.S. government’s global effort to combat HIV/AIDS, has been called into question amid a broader pause on foreign assistance and allegations from some Republican lawmakers that the Biden administration improperly allowed some of its funding to be spent on abortions.
White House suggests it will strip funds from Catholic Charities January 29, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The White House Jan. 28 sought to clarify what would and would not be impacted by a directive to freeze federal financial assistance programs and suggested it would seek to strip federal funds from nongovernmental organizations including Catholic Charities as part of its effort to enforce its immigration policies.
Trump’s return to the White House shifts abortion policy landscape January 29, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Within the first week of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, he used executive authority to block taxpayer funds from paying for elective abortion procedures both in the U.S. and abroad and delivered a virtual message to the March for Life rally on Jan. 24, while Vice President JD Vance addressed marchers in person.
Georgetown conference calls on pro-life activists to globalize ‘revolution of love’ January 28, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Pro-life activists examined their cause as a global one and heard a keynote address about “clarifying” their position at the 26th annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life on Jan. 25.
Trump bars taxpayer funding for abortion in the U.S. or overseas January 27, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News President Donald Trump on Jan. 24 used executive authority to block taxpayer funds from paying for elective abortion procedures both in the U.S. and abroad.
Supreme Court takes up case over proposed Oklahoma Catholic charter school January 25, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Schools, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court said Jan. 24 it would take up a case concerning the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City’s effort to establish the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school if it survives the challenge.
Trump tells March for Life rally by video he will ‘stand proudly’ for life and family January 24, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News President Donald Trump pledged to “stand proudly for families and for life” in a video message for the 52nd annual March for Life Jan. 24.
Trump orders JFK, RFK, MLK assassination files declassified: ‘Everything will be revealed’ January 24, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, World News President Donald Trump on Jan. 23 signed an executive order directing the declassification of files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, the nation’s first Catholic president, his brother Sen. Robert Kennedy, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the famed Civil Rights era leader.
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order January 23, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A federal judge on Jan. 23 temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to change the interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which grants birthright citizenship.
JD Vance to speak at March for Life rally January 23, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Vice President JD Vance will speak at the March for Life rally in the nation’s capital Jan. 24, organizers announced a day prior to the event.
Former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards dies at 67 January 23, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Obituaries, Respect Life, World News Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and progressive activist, died Jan. 20 after a battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. She was 67.
Catholic leaders condemn Trump’s order to expand use of death penalty January 22, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the federal death penalty Jan. 20, among the first actions of his second term, directing the attorney general to “pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use,” prompting statements of concern from Catholic opponents of the practice.
