U.S. Gave &#36;1B in Faith-Based Funds in 2003
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The government gave more than &#36;1 billion in 2003 to organizations it considers "faith-based," with some going to programs where prayer and spiritual guidance are central and some to organizations that do not consider themselves religious at all.
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U.S. spending on health care rose  7.7 percent to 1.7 trillion in 2003, outpacing overall economic  growth by nearly 3 percentage points, according to an annual  government report released on Tuesday.
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The team raising money for next week's festivities marking President Bush's inauguration has taken in &#36;25.5 million, mostly in donations from corporations, it reported Friday.
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The Vatican released details of its financial report Friday, saying increased contributions from dioceses and individuals &#151; primarily from the United States &#151; helped keep it in the black despite rising labor costs and a falling dollar.
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The Bush administration has broken new ground in its &quot;faith-based&quot; initiative, this time by offering federal employees a Catholic health plan that specifically excludes payment for contraceptives
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Fifty-three companies gave the maximum &#36;250,000 donation toward President Bush's inauguration this week.
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A brief history of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund:
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The Bush administration has recast the federal governmentâs role on religion-oriented cases instead of racial issues.
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The US has earmarked $24 million annually to support human rights groups in North Korea.
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A judge has blocked the Bush administration from providing future "faith-based" grants to an Arizona mentoring group that injected religion into its publicly funded programs.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh said Monday it has created a $1.25 million fund to settle 32 lawsuits alleging abuse or injury by priests.
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With a religiously mixed population, aid efforts have meant reaching out across faith barriers.
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor rose 4 percent to 35.9  million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the U.S.  government said on Thursday in a report sure to fuel Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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The $36 billion Massachusetts state employees pension fund notched a 14.4 percent return in 2004, besting its own internal targets, many other public pension funds around the country, and the US stock market.
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To strengthen the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria in India, Global Fund (GF), a US-based funding agency, has approved grants worth 413 million dollars to India for seven proposals, each of five-year duration.
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A US company has received more than $1bn in funding to build prototype unmanned fighter aircraft for the American military.
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Iraq cleared around &#36;81 million in debt it owed the International Monetary Fund late last week, fund sources said on Monday, opening the way for the first aid to flow from the global lender to Iraq.