The Vatican charity organization expressed indignation on Monday, which is called “reckless” and “unclean” who plan to go USAID, and the point of Pope Francis in the matter of development assistance insisted that the Trump administration remember Christian principles regarding the care of others who begin to rule.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Canadian Jesuit, born in the Czech Republic, is one of the cardinals most associated with the pontificate of Francis and directs the Vatican office responsible for migrants, the environment, charity organization and the development of Caritas Internationalis.
Caritas warned on Monday that millions of people would die as a result of the “absolute” American decision about the “reckless” detention of USAAID financing, and hundreds of millions of more will be condemned to “dehumanizing poverty”.
USAID is the main international arm of the Humanitarian and Developmental Government of the US, and in 2023 it managed over $ 40 billion in combined funds, which is about 40 percent of the global help budget.
The administration of Trump and billionaire Ally Elon Musk has so far directed USAID in their challenge of the federal government: freezing of financing has closed most USAID programs around the world, although the federal judge on Friday stopped the temporary stopping of plans to pull out thousands of agency employees out of work.
The Trump administration is carried out to reduce thousands of jobs at the United States International Development Agency (USAID), because the judge stops efforts to limit the federal workforce in the US through the redemption offers.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Czerny said that every upcoming government has the right to browse the budget for foreign assistance and even reform an agency such as USAID. He said, however, that this is another thing to dismantle the agency after she undertook financial obligations.
“Programs and expectations are underway – and we can even say commitments. And breaking the obligations is a serious matter, “said on Sunday 78 Czerny. “So, while each government has qualifications to review its budget in the case of foreign assistance, it would be good to have a warning, because finding other sources of financing requires time or finding other ways of satisfying the problems we have.”
One of the largest non-governmental financing recipients by USAID are the Catholic help services, the Catholic Church Aid Agency in the USA, which has already sounded the alarm with cuts. Other programs, including international Caritas programs at diocesan and national level, are also directly or indirectly affected, said Czerny.
In the statement, Caritas called on the urgent call of the US administration to reverse the course.
While large, the USAID budget is less than one percentage point of the gross domestic product in the USA, and a fraction of a biblical call to tithe 10 percent of its own income, noticed Czerny, who attended high school in Montreal, and later founded the Jezutal Center for the Center for Social Faith and Justice in Toronto.
AIDS agency UN sounds a warning
Cherny comments appear when the head of the UN AIDS agency also warns that HIV infections will increase without significant USAID range.
“We will see an increase in this disease,” said the executive director of Unaids Winnie Byanyima in an interview with The Associated Press.
“It will cost life if the American government does not change his mind and do not maintain leadership,” she said, adding that it was not a place to criticize the government's policy.
In one unit in Kenya, she said that 550 HIV employees were immediately dismissed, while thousands of others in Ethiopia were dissolved, leaving health officials not able to track the epidemic.
She noticed that the loss of American funds for HIV programs in some countries was catastrophic, and external funds, mainly from the USA, constitute about 90 percent of their programs. She said that almost $ 400 million in countries such as Uganda, Mozambique and Tanzania.
“We can work with (Americans) how to reduce your contribution if they want to reduce it,” she said.
Bynaima also said that the loss of American support in efforts to combat HIV is coming at other critical time, with the appearance of what she called a “magical preventive tool” known as Lenacapavir, which has shown that it has been shown that it has been shown that it has been shown that it has been shown that it has been offered complete protection against protection against protection against protection against protection Protection against HIV in women and who acted almost for both men.
She noticed that Lenacapavir, sold as Sunlenca, was developed by the American company Gilead.
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Treatment of migrants is a problem
Another area of the Vatican and Catholic hierarchy in the USA is the repression of Trump's administration in the face of undocumented migrants. The press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt said last week that over 8,000 people were arrested in immigration enforcement activities since the inauguration of Trump.
Some are detained in federal prisons, while others are beginning to be sent to the Guantanamo Bay Navy base in Cuba.
“Transfer is a terrible way to administer matters, let alone to manage justice,” said Czerny, whose family emigrated to Canada as a refugee after the Second World War. “And so I am very sorry that many people are injured and actually terrorized by means.
“Everything we can hope is that people, God's people and the company's people, will help and protect sensitive people who suddenly become more sensitive,” he added.
The conference of the US Catholic bishops issued an extremely critical statement after the first executive orders of President Donald Trump, to say that “focus on treating immigrants and refugees, foreign help, expansion of the death penalty and the environment are deeply embarrassed and they will be deeply caught and they will have negative consequences , many of which will hurt the most vulnerable among us. “
Inspired by the biblical call to “welcome a stranger”, Francis made care of migrants a priority of his pontakat, demanding that countries welcome, protect, promote and integrate these escaping conflicts, poverty and climate disasters. Francis also said that governments should do this with the limits of their ability.