Washington, D.C. Beat

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Concern is mounting that the ongoing tumult at the U.S. Agency for International Development is jeopardizing lives and livelihoods supported by the government’s humanitarian aid agency …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Vice President JD Vance defended cuts to U.S. foreign aid in remarks to the International Religious Freedom Summit Feb. 5, arguing the funds were “spreading atheism” abroad. …

(OSV News) — Budgets, it has been said, are moral documents. By examining what they include and exclude — fund and don’t fund — the apparent priorities of their makers are …

ARLINGTON, Va. (OSV News) — They are silent sentinels.  Painted a somber, stormy ocean blue, others an earthy olive drab, and some still bare wood and awaiting color, dozens of simple …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A federal spending freeze announced by the Trump administration sparked confusion in Washington in the second week of the president’s new term.  The same week in Washington, …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Claims that the U.S. bishops’ conference profits from its partnership with the government to assist refugee populations that qualify for federal assistance, and that the Catholic …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — In a pair of January confirmation hearings, senators considered President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services. It …

(OSV News) — The United States is a “nation with a proud legacy of welcome to immigrants” that also “needs secure, safe, sturdy borders,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New …

(OSV News) — U.S. Catholic bishops — joined by Pope Francis — are calling for prayer after a deadly aviation crash in the nation’s capital claimed dozens of lives. “Catholics …

WASHINGTON (OSV 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 …