In Trump's Cuts to Aid and Refugees, a Clash Over Christian Values

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Vice President JD Vance and the Pope square off, as faith-based groups face an existential crisis.

Since World War II, as refugees fled Europe, Christian charity groups have delivered lifesaving American assistance around the world.

Catholic Relief Services has fed those who are suffering during famines. World Vision, an evangelical group, has given tens of millions of people access to clean water and found donors to sponsor hungry children. Lutheran and Episcopal organizations have resettled refugees in the United States.

Throughout the decades, these faith-based groups worked hand in hand with the federal government. Agencies like the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of Health and Human Services eventually funded them with hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Many of these groups believed helping the poor and vulnerable expressed their values not only as Christians, but also as Americans.

Now, that legacy — and the very survival of these organizations and the values they represent — is in existential crisis.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/trump-usaid-christian-aid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE4.B0cz.qiDxMWF3K-KN&smid=url-share

Who knew that JD Vance knows more about the Christian faith than the Pope?

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1. Pshaw, my cats know more about being Christian than prancy vancy.

Like with democracy, he wouldnt know christianty and being a good christian if it bit him in the butt, ate his face, and hit him upside the head with the universal clue by four.