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Vital humanitarian activities that Jesuit Refugee Service leads in nine countries remain in jeopardy, JRS says, even after a judge's order to temporarily lift the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid.

Days before an environmental justice conference at Loyola Marymount University, federal workers withdrew their participation, citing President Trump's orders against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

The international relief organization founded by U.S. bishops in 1943 is in crisis after sweeping foreign aid cuts by the Trump administration. The bishops' conference did not respond to a request to comment.

An internal email says CRS is likely to be cut in half this year from Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign assistance. Cuts will "cost people's lives and livelihoods," a former bishops' conference official says.

For more than two decades, Interfaith Power and Light has galvanized faith voices around climate change and environmental justice. Its leaders said their work as a top moral voice will continue through its 40 state and regional affiliates.

"I believe that given the crises we face today we have a responsibility to play our part and lead where we can. … I feel this is my time to lead," Gold said.

Catholic Climate Covenant and the North American chapter of the Laudato Si' Movement urged President Trump to reverse his plans to expand fossil fuels, roll back regulations and exit the Paris climate accord.

On the first day of his second administration, Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders, declaring national emergencies on energy and at the U.S. southern border.

In spite of the many plights, environmental and otherwise, facing the world, the pope has called humanity to hope.

Cardinal McElroy did not shy from calling out Trump's environmental policies during his first administration. Now, the papal ally on ecological issues will move to D.C. not long after Trump returns to the White House.

Presidential elections, international environmental conferences, and weather-related disasters are just a few of the major environmental news stories that EarthBeat covered in 2024. Here is EarthBeat's year-end recap.

Dr. Philip Landrigan, an epidemiologist and pediatrician who has studied the health impacts of plastics, spoke with EarthBeat after U.N. negotiations adjourned Dec. 2 without a treaty to address plastic pollution.

Negotiations in South Korea were expected to deliver a treaty on plastics two years in the making, but the U.N. meeting adjourned early Dec. 2 with delegates for some 170 nations still deadlocked on key issues.

Nearly 200 countries adopted a new financing target to assist developing countries respond to climate change at the United Nations climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Sundays spent in nature and a return of year-round meatless Fridays were a few of the ideas floated Nov. 13 at the U.S. bishops' meeting as ways to mark the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical on ecology.

Catholic and faith representatives will join global leaders and national delegates Nov. 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan, host to the United Nations climate change conference, COP29. 

COP16 ended without decisions in key areas around implementing a global conservation treaty. But faith groups applauded the summit's establishment of a permanent body for Indigenous peoples in conservation matters.

U.S. Catholic bishops mostly have tempered their remarks about the presidential contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But some say the bishops' response is inadequate in the face of fears for democracy.

Several organizations are joining in a mission to identify low-propensity voters who care about the environment and motivate them simply to head to the polls.

Among delegates attending the latest United Nations biodiversity summit, called COP16, is a coalition of faith groups who say they aim to parcel out a larger space, and voice, for religion in conservation efforts.