On Monday, the charity of the Vatican expressed indignation of what it described as “ruthless” and “inhumane” US plans, and Pope Francis’ Point Man on Development AID claims that the Trump administration claims to be Christian principles Reminded of the care of others while she is ruling.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, the Canadian Jesuit born in Czech, is one of the cardinals that are closely linked to Francis’ pontificate and that for migrants, The Environment, the Caritas Internationalism Organization and Development of the Church.
On Monday, Caritas warned that millions of people will die from the consequences of the “ruthless” US decision to “ruthless” the USA -Financing, and hundreds of millions more are sentenced to “dehumlational poverty”.
USAI is the Humanitarian international and low -development arm of the US government and has led more than 40 billion US dollars in combined means in 2023, which made around 40 percent of global auxiliary budget.
The Trump administration and the billionaire, Ally Elon Musk of the agency’s employees from the job.
The Trump administration uses thousands of jobs at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) because a judge brings the efforts to stand out to reduce the US federal providers through buyout offers.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Czerny said that every arriving government had the right to check their foreign aid budget and even reform an agency like USA. But he said it was another thing to dismantle an agency after it has been received.
“They are programs and expectations in progress – and we could even say obligations. And breaking the obligations is a serious thing,” said 78 -year -old Czerny on Sunday. “While every government is qualified to check your budget in the event of a foreign aid, it would be good to have a warning because it takes time to find other sources of financing or to find other ways to fulfill the problems we have. “
One of the largest non -governmental recipients of USAID for financing is Catholic aid services, the aid organization of the Catholic Church in the United States, which has already triggered the alarm for the cuts. Other programs, including Caritas International Programs at Diocesan and National Level, are also directly or indirectly affected, said Czerny.
In an explanation, Caritas asked the governments to urge the US administration to reverse the course.
Although the USAID budget is less than one percentage of gross domestic product in the United States and a fraction of the biblical call to 10 percent of its own income, Czerny stated, who visited the High School in Montreal and later the Jesuit Center for Founded Social Faith and Justice in Toronto .
UN AIDS Agency sounds warning
Czerny’s comments come when the head of the UN -AIDS agency also warns that HIV infections would increase without the essential range of USA.
“We will see an increase in this disease,” said Unaid’s managing director Winnie Byanyima in an interview with the Associated Press.
“This will cost life if the American government does not change their opinion and maintains its leadership,” she said, adding that it was not her place to criticize the policy of a government.
In a Kenyan district, she said 550 HIV workers were immediately released, while thousands of others ended in Ethiopia, so that health officers could not follow the epidemic.
She found that the loss of US funding to HIV programs in some countries was catastrophic and external funds, mainly from the United States, is about 90 percent of their programs. Almost 400 million US dollars go to countries such as Uganda, Mozambique and Tanzania, she said.
“With (the Americans) we can work on how you can reduce your contribution if you want to reduce it,” she said.
Von Anyima also said that the loss of American support in combating HIV came at another critical time, whereby the arrival of the “magical prevention instrument” called Lenacapavir was called a twice -year shot that was shown to complete protection Protect HIV in women and who worked almost as well as for men.
She noticed that Lenacapavir, which was sold as Sunlenca, was developed by American Company Gilead.
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Treatment of migrants a problem
Another concern of the Vatican and Catholic hierarchy in the USA is the approach of the Trump government against migrants without papers. The Press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said last week that more than 8,000 people have been arrested from immigration authorities since Trump’s term.
Some are held in federal prisons, while others are sent to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
“A procedure is a terrible way to manage matters and much less to manage justice,” said Czerny, whose own family immigrated to Canada as refugees after the Second World War. “And that’s why I am very sorry that many people are violated and actually terrorized by the measures.
“Everything we can hope for is that the people, the people of God and the people will help in terms of goodwill and protect people in need of protection who are suddenly made much more at risk,” he added.
The US conference of the Catholic bishops published an unusually critical explanation according to the initial orders of President Donald Trump and said that those who focus on the treatment of immigrants and refugees have negative consequences, many of which are most harmful to us . “
Inspired by the biblical call to “greeting the stranger”, Francis has made the care of migrants a priority of his pontificate and demands that the federal states welcome the escape conflicts, poverty and climate disaster. Francis also stated that governments do this for the limits of their capacity.
