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The Truth About USAID and Catholic Relief Services, by Stephen Kokx – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Truth About USAID and Catholic Relief Services, by Stephen Kokx

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February 8, 2025

By Stephen Kokx, LifeSite News, February 7, 2025

From 2013 through the 2022 fiscal year, USAID awarded CRS a whopping $4.6 billion in total funding, more than any other organization on the planet.

President Donald Trump’s attacks on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has Catholic Relief Services (CRS) worried it may have to let half of its staff go, according to an internal email written by its CEO.

“We anticipate that we will be a much smaller overall organization by the end of this fiscal year,” Sean Callahan reportedly said this week.

News of the potential firings infuriated dissident laity and clergy but has given conservative Catholics like Michael Hichborn reason to celebrate.

Speaking with Raymond Arroyo on EWTN’s The World Over last night, Hichborn praised Trump’s actions as being long overdue.

“Catholic Relief Services, as an organization, shouldn’t be receiving federal funds anyway simply because USAID was created primarily as a population control organization,” he said.

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