President Biden broke off from the scheduled events at the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday to hold a summit with world leaders on COVID vaccines.
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Building vital public trust in the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine, that’s President Joe Biden’s goal. How he’s planning to achieve it – buying and donating 500 million vaccines to low and lower-income countries across the globe.
“To beat the pandemic here, we need to beat it everywhere,” said President Biden.
President Biden made the announcement, Wednesday, in a breakaway virtual coronavirus summit with other world leaders who have been gathered for the United Nations General Assembly.
The President is also calling on countries around the world to ramp up their own vaccine manufacturing and donations.
“We’re working with partner nations to increase their own capacity and capability to produce and manufacture safe and highly effective vaccines in their own countries,” President Biden said.
This announcement brings the total number of vaccine doses the United States has shared to 1.1 billion. President Biden says he’s after true global health security for all and believes the only way to defeat COVID-19 is together.
“We’re going to lead with the power of our example, but the only way to get this done is for everyone, everywhere, all of us to step up,” he said.
More than 4.5 million people around the world have died from COVID-19 so far.
President Biden wants 70 percent of the global population to be vaccinated within a year.
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A San Antonio doctor has become the first to officially challenge the new Texas pro-life law. Doctor Alan Braid says he performed an abortion in defiance of the new pro-life law and is now facing two lawsuits for doing so.
The plaintiffs in both cases are not Texas residents and both say they are pro-abortion. The six-week abortion ban in Texas went into effect Sept. 1.
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It’s been several months since Pope Francis’ trip to Iraq, but the country continues to remember those days.
Now Iraq is commemorating the visit with postage stamps. Their value ranges from 1,500 dinars (about $1) to 500 dinars. They immortalize moments like the Holy Father’s visit to Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of Abraham and his meeting in Najaf with Ali Al Sistani, the spiritual leader of millions of Shia Muslims.
One of the stamps has an image of the facade of the Cathedral of Baghdad. It isn’t the first time Iraq prints Christian images on its stamps.
In 2020, the country released this postage stamp collection featuring some of Baghdad’s churches. It’s often sold online by collectors.
The Department of Homeland Security says its sending personnel to conduct oversight after disturbing pictures of Border Patrol on horseback emerged at the makeshift migrant camp in Del Rio, Texas.
The Supreme Court is set to take up the pro-life battle on Dec. 1 when it hears arguments in a Mississippi case — directly challenging the landmark abortion case, Roe v Wade.
President Biden is delivering his first address to the United Nations.
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Church leaders agree – they say asylum is a human right and the way the humanitarian crisis at the Del Rio border is being handled is wrong.
“This situation, this cry for help, for survival hits home and hits us all here,” said Monsignor Pierre-Andre Pierre, the head of the National Center of the Haitian Apostolate.
Church leaders in the Diocese of Brooklyn and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, where thousands of Haitian migrants have created a makeshift encampment, say they understand the issue is complicated and there’s no clear solution.
“The situation is pressing because there are too many, but these people have been leaving very difficult situations in their home countries and they have been moving toward the border for weeks and months, some even years,” said Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of the Archdiocese of San Antonio.
The advice they’re giving is now is the time to act according to faith.
“They’re in desperation and they have been following directions and they want to make it right coming into the U.S,” said Archbishop Garcia-Siller.
“This is a Christian, a Catholic duty to welcome the stranger and help a brother and sister in need,” Monsignor Pierre said.
The Haitian Apostolate is meeting this week to strategize on what it can do to help at the border as it joins forces with the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Through Catholic Charities the Archdiocese is building a migrant center in Del Rio – one of its functions will be to help migrants with legal services.
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