Press Release

FCNL applauded yesterday’s introduction of the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act of 2024 in the House of Representatives.

FCNL is troubled that the rate of food insecurity in the United States continued to tick upward for the second year in a row.

Washington, DC, July 30, 2024: City, county, and NGO leaders announced their support for the Destination Reception Assistance Act introduced today by Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Representatives Grace Meng (NY-06), Delia Ramirez (IL-03), Adriano Espaillat (NY-13).

Legislation is endorsed by city and county leaders across the country.

FCNL and 63 other organizations wrote the Senate Appropriations Committee leadership urging them to reject the recently House-passed cuts to peacebuilding, human rights, humanitarian aid, migration, climate adaptation, and poverty-focused development assistance in the proposed FY25 appropriations.

We are dismayed and heartbroken by the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13. We hold him, those killed and wounded, and all those affected by these traumatic events in the Light.

FCNL hailed the recent bipartisan vote in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce to pass the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act.

FCNL today called on President Joe Biden to rescind his executive order restricting access of asylum seekers to the country.

FCNL lamented the final passage of the massive $95 billion in further war funding for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and others.

More than 300 young adults lobbied Congress this week supporting the bipartisan Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act.