Pope's point-man on migration and aid concerned about USAID cuts, alarmed at US migrant crackdown

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Pope’s point-man on migration and aid concerned about USAID cuts, alarmed at US migrant crackdown

By NICOLE WINFIELD
Updated 2:43 AM EST, February 10, 2025

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis’ point-man on migration and development has urged the Trump administration to remember Christian principles about caring for others, saying people are being “terrorized” by the U.S. crackdown on migrants and vital church-run aid programs are being jeopardized by the planned gutting of USAID.

Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Czech-born Canadian Jesuit, is one of the cardinals most closely associated with Francis’ pontificate and heads the Vatican office responsible for migrants, the environment, the church’s Caritas Internationalis charity and development.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Czerny said every incoming government has the right to review its foreign aid budget, and to even reform an agency like USAID. But he said it’s another thing to dismantle an agency after it has made funding commitments.

“There are programs underway and expectations and we might even say commitments, and to break commitments is a serious thing,” Czerny said Sunday. “So while every government is qualified to review its budget in the case of foreign aid, it would be good to have some warning because it takes time to find other sources of funding or to find other ways of meeting the problems we have.”

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/vatican-us-usaid-pope-migration-6bf064630ff58022ab133f5375f5b5ef

[Think. Again.]

1. Oh, he's "concerned". How righteous.

[Skittles]

2. LOL

the GOP and "Christian principles"

[edhopper]

3. Maybe all the Catholic Cardinals here

shouldn't have backed Trump. Which they did in their speech and actions, if not coming out with an endorsement.