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Of Note Archives 2020

Press Releases and Statements

  • Statement: Faith Leaders Demand Passage of Robust COVID Relief Bill (Sept 29, 2020)
  • Release: Prevent the Administration from Delaying or Cutting Refugee Numbers in 2021 (Sept 22, 2020)
  • Release: Win for Women - Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Passes House (Sept 17, 2020)
  • Statement: Trump Issues Fraudulent Executive Order
    Against Immigrants in Census
    (Jul 27, 2020)
  • Statement: Pass the Voting Rights Act in Memory of Rep. John Lewis (Jul 19, 2020)
  • Federal Comment: NAC Opposed to Anti-Asylum Proposal (Jul 15, 2020)
  • Release by Catholic Leaders: Free the Families and End Family Detention (Jul 1, 2020)
  • Statement by Catholic Leaders: Call to Free the Families and End Family Detention (Jul 1, 2020)
  • Release: U.S. Supreme Court Decision - DACA Stays. We Need Permanent Congressional Response (Jun 18, 2020)
  • Statement: A Vision for a Better World (Jun 15, 2020)
  • Joint Statement (NAC, U.S. Provincials, GSIJPO): Statement on the Killing of George Floyd and Racial Injustice (Jun 1, 2020)
  • Statement: George Floyd - No excuses. This is not what America should be. (May 29, 2020)
  • Release: President Trump Ending Immigration (Apr 22, 2020)
  • Release: U.S. Must Continue Funding the World Health Organization (Apr 17, 2020)
  • Release: The U.S. may never know how many children were lost in detention (Apr 6, 2020)
  • Release: Let Asylum Seekers In - Covid Crisis Compassion (Mar 19, 2020)
  •  Release: #InThisTogether #IncludeAll - What about the Vulnerable? (Mar 16, 2020)
  • CCOAHT Advisory: Mass & Reception to Remember Survivors & Victims of Human Trafficking (Feb 5, 2020)
  • Release: ​Three Years On - President Trump’s Muslim Ban Anathema to the American Spirit (Jan 28, 2020)

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Sample News Reports

  • Catholic News Service Article in Our Sunday Visitor: House passage of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act called ‘huge win for women’ (Sept 21, 2020)
  • Catholic News Service Article in The Leaven (Archdiocese of Kansas City): Groups file complaint after report alleging immigrants subjected to hysterectomies (Sept 15, 2020)
  • Independent Catholic News Article: Catholic leaders call for families to be freed from US detention centres (Jul 3, 2020)
  • Catholic News Service Article in Catholic Courier (Rochester): Reaction positive to Supreme Court decision on bid to end DACA (Jun 19, 2020)
  • National Catholic Reporter: Supreme Court rules against ending DACA program (Jun 18, 2020)
  • Catholic News Service Article in Boston Pilot: Racism seen at the heart of man's death at hands of Minneapolis police (May 29, 2020)
  • Catholic News Service Article in National Catholic Reporter: Catholic immigration advocates attack Trump tweet on halting immigration (Apr 22, 2020)
  • YubaNet: 60+ Orgs to Congress - No More COVID-19 Money For the Pentagon (Apr 22, 2020)
  • YubaNet: A First Priority for a Biden Administration Will Be Comprehensive Reforms, as Reflected in H.R. 1 (Apr 20, 2020)
  • Maryland Matters Article: Progressive Groups Offer Policymakers Expansive Agenda to Protect Struggling Marylanders (Apr 13, 2020)
  • Catholic News Service Article in Crux: Catholic Organizations Urge Communities to Respond to U.S. Census (Mar 29, 2020)
  • Catholic News Service Article in Catholic Sentinel (Archdiocese of Portland): Coronavirus may produce misery beyond disease to migrants, home countries (Mar 27, 2020)
  • Catholic News Service Article in The Compass (Diocese of Green Bay): Goal of Lenten postcard, online campaign is an end to labor trafficking (Mar 25, 2020)
  • City News Service Article in Pasadena Now: Chu, Murphy, Feinstein, and Neguse Lead Effort to Block President Trump's Expanded 'Muslim Ban' (Mar 3, 2020)
  • Catholic News Service Article in Global Sisters Report: At Mass, people encouraged to pray, take action to combat human trafficking (Feb 11, 2020)
  • Catholic Standard (Archdiocese of Washington): At Mass, people encouraged to pray, take action to combat human trafficking (Feb 11, 2020)
  • Town Hall Column by Michelle Malkin: Who Decides Who Gets In? (Jan 8, 2020)
  • Independent Catholic News: US faith groups condemn US aggression towards Iran (Jan 5, 2020)

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