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December 22, 2020 CWN Editor's Note: “The extension through January gets us over an immediate crisis, however, my fear is that we are seeing cascading disaster because at some point all of these people are going to be expected to pay back rent and no one will be able to,” said Sister Donna Markham. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.   Sound Off! CatholicCulture.org supporters weigh in. All comments are moderated. To lighten our editing burden, only current donors are allowed to Sound Off. If you are a ...

 In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo, housing activists erect a sign in front of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's house in Swampscott, Mass. A moratorium put in place by the Centers for Disease Control in September that protects certain renters from eviction expires at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) Renters facing eviction this winter, as the coronavirus pandemic surges in nearly all states, could get a little help from two Catholic organizations, who launched “The Francis Fund” in an effort to provide relief. Catholic Charities USA and the Felician Sisters of North ...

Catholic Charities USA and Felician Sisters of North America establish $2 million "CCUSA Francis Fund for Eviction Prevention" News provided by Share this article Share this article ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As thousands of families face eviction by the end of December, Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) and the Felician Sisters of North America joined forces to create the "CCUSA Francis Fund for Eviction Prevention."  Each organization contributed $1 million to seed the emergency fund. Catholic Charities agencies across the U.S. will assist in the distribution of the funds...

Five years children. >> reporter: millions of people of various religions from fled. among them hundreds of thousands of christians from syria and iraq. sister donna markham is president of catholics of usa. >> august of 2014, ug 6th, to be precise, isis came in and all of the christians were essentially evict fred from their homes. so their convent, their school, their hospitals, everything, their mother house, everything was lost. so they left with the clothes on their back and ran for their lives. >> reporter: they ran from happy lives, from their middle class homes. the nuns ran from their...

Action. i sat down with the president of catholic charities, sister donna markham to talk about it. >> i know i wasn't selected to be president of catholic charities because i was a woman. i think i was asked to do it because people trusted my ability. ♪ >> pope francis can be confusing. one moment he's talking girl power and the next he's not. i'm not the only one confused. when the pope said women in the church are more important than bishops and priests, just like mary is more important than the apostl apostles, i think a lot of people were astounded by that remark. do you think he meant ...