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Vatican’s Caritas outraged at ‘reckless’ USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty

The Norwegian Refugee Council announced it was "forced" to suspend humanitarian activities in nearly 20 countries due to the US aid freeze under President Donald Trump.
US-Based Catholic Relief Services warned of layoffs because of cuts to foreign aid grants, impacting its $1.5 billion budget.
Caritas Internationalis stated the cuts would "kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanising poverty."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he would take over as head of the US Agency for International Development amid concerns over aid spending.

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National Catholic Reporter

Vatican charity head blasts Trump's USAID cuts as 'reckless' decision that will 'kill millions'

The head of the Catholic Church's global charity arm has blasted the Trump administration's decision to gut foreign aid as "reckless" and lamented that it will likely "kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty."

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NBC News

‘A lot of people will die': How Trump's USAID overhaul could lead to famine in Sudan

President Donald Trump’s 90-day freeze on all foreign aid could not have come at a worse time for Sudan.

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Crux

New Archbishop of Detroit denounces Trump plan to dismantle USAID

NEW YORK – In some of his first remarks as archbishop-elect of Detroit, Michigan, Edward Weisenburger warned against the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle USAID, and highlighted the responsibility the United States has to care for those suffering around the world. “In our culture, when we don’t have to see that person, see that process, we can kind of close our minds to it, but I don’t think a Christian can do that,” Weisenburger said in …

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Caritas Internationalis calls U.S. foreign aid freeze 'ruthless'

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The “ruthless” and “callous” decision of the Trump administration to freeze U.S. humanitarian and development aid “threatens the lives and dignity of millions” of people around the world, said Caritas Internationalis. Stopping programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and recalling overseas staff “will jeopardize essential services for hundreds of millions of people, undermine decades of progress in hu…

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Migrant shelters in Tijuana feel pinch with no USAID money

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Migrant shelters in Tijuana are reporting funding shortages as a result of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, being gutted by the Trump administration. Since the 1960s, it has administered and distributed billions of dollars in foreign aid for health, education, water and food distribution programs worldwide. Recently, President Donald Trump ordered the organization be shut down as a cost-cutting m…

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Trump's foreign aid cuts 'catastrophic,' says global Catholic charity arm

The Roman Catholic Church's worldwide charity arm sharply criticized President Donald Trump's cuts to U.S. foreign aid on Monday, saying his plans to end funding for relief agency USAID will have a

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