This is What Solidarity Looks Like
Parishes, schools, families, and communities across the United States have joined the Catholics Confront Global Poverty initiative. Their efforts have connected them to their brothers and sisters across the world and made a difference in real peoples' lives. This is what solidarity looks like!

Catholics Confront Global Poverty
Bishop Howard Hubbard invites you to become one of a million Catholics working to confront global poverty. In the video, Bishop Hubbard challenges listeners to enter into a relationship of solidarity with all those living in poverty, and to advocate for a world where the life and dignity of all can be respected.

Debt Relief
Many developing countries still suffer from debt burdens that divert important funding away from health, education, and other programs necessary for the well-being of their peoples.

Gerry Flood, Foreign Policy Counselor at USCCB, discusses why debt relief is important to the Church, which has been a leading voice advocating for debt relief since 1998.

Global Climate Change
We are called to be stewards of God’s creation, working to protect the environment with which we have been entrusted. Cecilia Calvo, Project Coordinator for Environmental Justice/Climate Change at USCCB, shares the distinctively Catholic perspective on climate change, which involves protecting both the environment and the poor persons who are often the worst victims of climate change even though they contribute to its causes the least. She also invites all Catholics to get involved in a new and exciting initiative.

Migration
The Catholic Church’s teaching on migration is based on its commitment to promote and defend human dignity and to devote particular attention to those who are most vulnerable. In this video, Mary DeLorey, Strategic Issues Advisor-Latin America/Caribbean Region for CRS, focuses on the conditions that causemany people to be forced to migrate, and on how we, as Catholics, can respond justly to those immigrants already in the United States.

International Assistance
International assistance helps people live lives worthy of their dignity as human beings, made in God’s image and likeness. Bill O’Keefe, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Catholic Relief Services, talks about how Catholics can work to improve and increase international assistance, so that children of God across the world can lift themselves out of poverty.

Natural Resources
Many developing countries have an abundance of natural resources like oil, diamonds, and lumber. Unfortunately, the benefits of exploiting these resources do not often reach the impoverished local populations in the communities surrounding resource-rich areas. Rees Warne, Strategic Issues Advisor on Extractives at CRS, talks about how we are all connected to those who make the products we use—and how Catholics can act in solidarity to make sure that natural resources are used in a more responsible way.

Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
Poverty creates the conditions for violence, while conflict increases poverty. In this video, Steve Colecchi, Director of International Justice and Peace at USCCB, shares how the Church is working both to help end current conflicts and aid their victims, and to create the conditions of justice needed for a more peaceful world.

Global Trade and Agricultural Policies
In the Church’s vision, economic life should be guided by a moral framework that respects the life and dignity of every person. In this video, Fr. Andrew Small, Policy Advisor for Latin America and Global Trade at USCCB, explains how trade and agricultural policies sometimes fall short of this vision—and what Catholics can do about it.