Emmanuele Da Ponte

Emmanuele Da Ponte joined the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) in the summer of 2023 as the Associate Director of Government Relations. He has two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and History of the Social Sciences. His main focus is advising and building relationships with Congress and the United Nations to promote truly just legislation that defends and uphold human dignity and family rights.

Emmanuele has lived and travelled to six of the seven continents. He spent four years in Israel, where he learned Levantine Arabic, and Hebrew. He is also proficient in Italian, English, and Spanish. In 2020 he taught a semester of Tanakh (Biblical Hebrew) for a class of seminarians in Connecticut.

When he is not dedicating his time to C-Fam’s important mission, Emmanuele cherishes moments spent with his beloved wife and cello. His journey has shaped him into a compassionate and determined advocate for life, bringing his unique experiences and skills to serve a cause he holds near and dear to his heart.

In Uganda, LGBT Activists Prioritize S*x over Starvation

A coalition of activists are urging the World Bank to withhold loans from Uganda, one of the poorest countries in the world, over its Anti-Homosexuality Act. This could set up a tension between sex and starvation.

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USAID’s Oversight Failures Erode Trust in Foreign Assistance

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has lost track of billions in U.S. foreign aid to UN agencies.

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Italy’s Meloni Fights Abortion Extremism at G7 Countries

WASHINGTON D.C., June 21 (C-FAM) Italian President Giorgia Meloni used her role as President of the G7 Summit and the presence of the Holy Father Pope Francis at the G7 Summit as leverage to remove an explicit endorsement of abortion in the final statement of the diplomatic meeting.

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Witnesses Criticize Wasteful and Politicized U.S. Foreign Aid

Expert witnesses told a Congressional subcommittee last week that U.S. overseas funds were being used in ways that create harmful consequences and intentionally used to spread controversial social agendas in recipient countries.

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Biden Admin Spends $4.1 Billion on LGBT Programs

In the last three years, the U.S. government issued more than $4.1 billion in taxpayer money through 1,100 grants to fund LGBT-promoting projects around the world.

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Abortion Extremists Complain to Organization of American States

At a hearing last week, abortion advocates complained to the human rights body of the Organization of American States about the U.S. Supreme Court overturning a right to abortion in the United States.

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Opposition to Sodomy is Colonialism, says UN Expert

Traditional man-woman marriage, sodomy laws and social norms about gender are Western colonial impositions according to a UN human rights report.

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U.S. House Votes to Keep Abortion out of HIV/AIDS Relief

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) took to the House floor last week and reminded lawmakers that Africans do not want money for HIV/AIDS relief going to pro-abortion groups. Smith read a letter from 131 African lawmakers and religious leaders that put this in the strongest terms.

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Children for Sale Online

Lori Cohen told a Congressional committee this week that the United States accounts for 30% of all child pornography web addresses . The Netherlands hosted the most child porn web addresses from 2016 to 2022 but shut such sites down, leaving the U.S. in the top spot.

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New Biden Policy Ties Foreign Poor to Gender Ideology

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has released its first LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development Policy,  the purpose of which is to spread controversial gender ideology through foreign assistance.

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