Executive Vice President for Government Relations and Advocacy for @CatholicRelief
Baltimore, MD
Joined November 2014
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Fragile contexts aren’t all the same, and development responses shouldn't be either. The #FragilityForum 2026 explores what tailored, context-specific development looks like in practice.
June 8–10 | Washington D.C. or online: wrld.bg/pV6Q50Z5bbi
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Caritas Internationalis is overjoyed to join the universal Church in thanksgiving and to welcome Pope Leo XIV. We offer our prayers as he begins his sacred ministry, and pledge our support in a spirit of service and synodality. Read more: bit.ly/434FR1h #PopeLeoXIV
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At 6.26pm on 24 March 1980, Archbishop Romero was assassinated whilst celebrating Mass in the small hospital chapel where he lived. The Mass was being recorded. Listen as the shot rings out whilst he is speaking.
St Oscar Romero, pray for us.
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Over 6,400 households in the Bodely Village in the Somali region of Ethiopia now have a brand new water system! This privately funded, innovative water system benefits not only families but thousands of cattle—crucial for the pastoralist community's livelihood.
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It’s not every day that the Holy Father sends you a letter! We were overjoyed to receive a letter from @Pontifex congratulating CRS on the 50th anniversary of #CRSRiceBowl, our Lenten campaign.
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On the new AMDG podcast, @OKeefeCRS, an executive at @CatholicRelief, shares how USAID cuts are affecting the US Church's ability to help people across the globe and how his team is working to figure out how to keep doing their life-saving work. ow.ly/a8G650VgPaC
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On the new #AMDG pod, @OKeefeCRS, an executive at @CatholicRelief, shares how USAID cuts are affecting the US Church's ability to help people across the globe and how his team is working to figure out how to keep doing their life-saving work.
🎧 ow.ly/a8G650VgPaC
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Grateful to join @jesuiticalshow with @zacdayvis @AshleyMcKinless for a wide-ranging conversation about cuts to USAID, the Church's mission in the digital environment, & much more. @OKeefeCRS leads the convo with important background on @CatholicRelief
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This will be a fantastic opportunity!
CRS staff members from Sudan and Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank will discuss current acute hunger needs in these contexts, drivers of these needs, and how the U.S. and global community can help. ⬇️ RSVP: brnw.ch/21wJ6wk.
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..to boost aid remain elusive (Kerem Shalom open on weekends; opening Karni; providing electricity; rejecting fewer supplies)
-Worries Isr+DC are touting success through hollow metrics, eg focusing on trucks, which are counted half-full, not specific needs @JesCMarks @OKeefeCRS
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‘Roots of Change’ by @CatholicRelief uncovers the necessity of locally led development for sustainable solutions.
An important piece by CRS CEO @CallahanCRS on @devex, dispelling myths about #Localization ⬇️
devex.com/news/sponsored/opi…
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Our hearts weigh heavy today. CRS' longtime contract photographer, Mohamed Reefi, was killed in Gaza City while waiting with other Gazan civilians for food aid to arrive. We are devastated.
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Join us on 2/21 for our CRS Information Session to learn about the impactful work of CRS Chapters and Clubs. Discover how you can get involved in addressing #hunger, #poverty, and #ClimateChange for our sisters and brothers worldwide. brnw.ch/21wGLRb
#OnePlanetOneFamily
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🧵Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, close to Biden, after meeting humanitarian officials: “I had a sobering and informative conversation today with leaders from Catholic Relief Services, Oxfam America, and Save the Children to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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Thank you @ChrisCoons & @SenatorCardin for your conversation with @CallahanCRS to address the dire humanitarian situation in #Gaza and for listening to Sean's first-hand report of his visit there. We appreciate your leadership in addressing this urgent situation.
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Even in death, Louisiana bishop inspires commitment to ‘Dreamers’ cruxnow.com/church-in-the-us…
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How many innocents are being slaughtered in our world! In their mothers’ wombs, in odysseys undertaken in desperation and in search of hope, in the lives of all those little ones whose childhood has been devastated by war. They are the little Jesuses of today.
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A Wartime Christmas Message from the Catholic Church in the Holy Land americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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For the inhabitants of the Holy Land, a #Christmas of pain and mourning looms. We do not want to leave them alone. May we stand by them in prayer and tangible aid. The suffering of Bethlehem is an open wound for the Middle East and the entire world.
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U.S. Bishops’ President Pleads for Peace as Innocent People are Killed in the Land of Jesus’ Birth | Read the full release at: ow.ly/Nmu750Qjtp0
