Tag: President Donald Trump
Trump and Iran reach tentative deal to end war, but obstacles...
After President Donald Trump, Pakistani mediators, and Iranian officials said a framework has been reached for a deal to end the war in Iran, a Catholic expert in peacekeeping said that while there is cause for optimism, key obstacles remain.
Trump administration ends contract with Miami Catholic Charities to shelter unaccompanied...
The Trump administration has canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami for sheltering unaccompanied migrant children, leaving just three months to place an unspecified number of children.
Trump says he has ‘right to disagree’ with Pope Leo, meeting...
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House 16 April that he does not see a meeting with Pope Leo XIV as "necessary" after the president lashed out at the pontiff on social media and in verbal remarks over the pontiff's opposition to the Iran war over the course of several days starting 12 April.
Pope versus President – Doomscrolling and prayer
If you pray aspirations while doomscrolling, you’ll pray more, which will open up unsuspected horizons for your spiritual life, and you’ll doomscroll less. Which is probably not a bad thing.
More US bishops raise their voices against Trump’s attacks on Pope...
More of the nation's Catholic bishops have weighed in after President Donald Trump began denouncing Pope Leo XIV at length on social media, and then posted a now-deleted image of himself as Jesus.
Pope evaluating Trump’s invitation to join Board of Peace, Vatican’s secretary...
Pope Leo XIV is currently evaluating an invitation by US President Donald Trump to join his "Board of Peace," an international body chaired by the president to oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state said.
Church must stand for peace, human rights, says Greenland priest, as...
The Trump administration's stated plans to acquire Greenland for the US – either through purchase from Denmark or by military means – are being met with concern, sometimes fear and "a quiet strength" by residents, the Arctic island's only Catholic parish priest told OSV News.
UN vote on Trump’s Gaza plan ‘sends powerful message’ for peace...
The chair of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace said he was heartened by a United Nations move to approve President Donald Trump's plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip by installing international transitional governance and military forces there.
Nigerian church leaders have mixed reaction to Trump threat of action...
Nigeria's return to the US list of countries of "particular concern" over Christian persecution has drawn mixed reactions from church leaders and triggered a heated debate in Africa's most populous nation.
Trump rolls out policy proposal to boost IVF, a procedure US...
President Donald Trump announced 16 October a policy proposal to increase access to in vitro fertilisation, including issuing guidance urging employers to offer fertility benefits directly to their employees.
Trump-Putin summit fails to advance peace, justice
The Alaska summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held on 15 August has ultimately failed to address the "fundamental moral and geopolitical questions" of Russia's multiyear war on Ukraine, said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
El Salvador president says he won’t return erroneously deported, imprisoned man...
Trump administration officials and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on 14 April dismissed arguments that an erroneously deported Maryland man should be returned to the United States from a prison where he is being held in El Salvador.


















