USCCB
Looks Forward to Working with White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative
May 4,
2018
WASHINGTON–Yesterday,
on the National Day of Prayer, President Trump signed an Executive Order
announcing the establishment of the White
House Faith and Opportunity Initiative.
Jonathan
Reyes, Ph.D., USCCB Assistant General Secretary for Integral Human Development,
stated the following:
“We look
forward to working with the White House on its Faith and Opportunity
Initiative. Overcoming poverty and challenging other social problems like
the opioid crisis takes all hands-on deck. The faith community has
collaborated with government partners in this country at the federal, state,
and local levels for a very long time. We pray that we will continue to
have the freedom and the space to serve the least of these, as the Gospel
mandates.”
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