Posted on 11/21/2015 12:39:19 PM PST by javie
In an NTEB Special Report, we have recently received information that the Catholic Church received payments totalling $79,590,512.00 to facilitate the flow of undocumented and illegal immigrants into the United States in 2014. This is six million dollars more than they were paid in 2013.
I know it’s not popular here but it’s time for these so called churches to start paying their “fair share” of taxes, IMHO. If you want to run with the big dogs, you’re going to have to pay.
as a practicing Catholic, i agree...
What WHORES!
Them supporting the desires of the muslim CIC in his endeavors to import and spread more islam? I don’t want to believe this, however there are idiots abound. Lots in the church.
The illiterates should be the first to know that everything islam is about is antithetical to the Christian faith.
Islam is the anti-Christ personified!
Each piece of silver was $2,633,333...
My church hides and protects child molesters. And now this BS. Outrageous.
Either all or none.
I’m catholic and what can I say? The pope is not infallible when it comes to politics and he is very left wing. It affects the whole hierarchy.
How much of your tax dollars are the federal refugee resettlement contractors receiving?
Posted by Ann Corcoran on January 16, 2015
These are the nine major contractors the US State Department and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (HHS) fund. They call them Voluntary Agencies (VOLAGs) which is such a joke considering the large amount of federal funding that flows to each one! There are approximately 350 subcontractors in 180 cities working under the nine biggies.
We did not include the two new contractors primarily responsible for the ‘unaccompanied minors.’
Church World Service
(From 2012 Form 990)
Total revenue: $76,185,774
Govt. grants and contracts: $45,431,781
Percent taxpayer funded: 60%
Top salary: $286,000 (Top salaries throughout include benefits and income from related activities)
Ethiopian Community Development Council (secular)
(From 2012 Form 990)
Total revenue: $15,244,802
Govt. grants: $14,609,687
Percent taxpayer funded: 96%
Top salary: $233,228
Episcopal Migration Ministries
This gets tricky. Apparently EMM (or now known as Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America), does not produce a Form 990 (no response from them to a recent inquiry was received) nor do they publish their federal income in their annual report.
The only accounting we could find is an independent auditor’s report that reveals they received $17,365,325 from the federal government for their refugee program in 2012.
Further examination by a qualified accountant would be needed to find out how they spent the $17 million.
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
(From 2012 Form 990 for HIAS, Inc. Can’t be found at Guidestar under its full name only as HIAS,Inc, just one of those things that makes tracking these VOLAGs very difficult. LOL! we have learned that they have dropped the “Hebrew†from their name.)
Total revenue: $25,418,714
Govt. grants and contracts (including travel loan income): $15,426,116
Percent taxpayer funded: 61%
Top salary: $323,162
International Rescue Committee (secular)
(From 2012 Form 990)
Total revenue: $456,122,865
Govt. grants and contracts (including travel loan income): $332,271,151
Percent taxpayer funded: 73%
Top salary: $485,321
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (secular)
(From 2012 Form 990)
Total revenue: $39,205,548
Govt. grants and contracts: $38,817,939
Percent taxpayer funded: 99%
Top salary: $289,192
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
(From 2012 Form 990)
Total revenue: $43,563,804
Govt. grants and contracts: $42,047,935
Percent taxpayer funded: 97%
Top salary: $214,237
World Relief (National Association of Evangelicals)
(From 2012 Form 990)
Total revenue: $56,842,649
Govt. grants and contracts: $38,837,294
Percent taxpayer funded: 68%
Top salary: $211,651 (again the ‘salaries’ include other related compensation)
US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Last, but by far not least, is the US Catholic Bishops whose finances now require further explanation. The USCCB, by the way, resettles the largest number of refugees in the US with the help of Catholic Charities located throughout America. They make no effort to single out Christians for resettlement and in fact, in 2013 they were requesting that the US State Department bring more Rohingya Muslims from Burma (Myanmar) to America.
Up until recently we could access their annual reports to determine their direct income from the federal taxpayer (for their migration program), however, it appears that since RRW and others began publishing the information, we are no longer able to access those reports.
To our knowledge, no Form 990 is filed. Churches are not required to file 990s, so perhaps the Bishops consider themselves a church.
Also, since federal funds go directly to myriad Catholic Charities around the country especially to states such as Tennessee where Catholic Charities and the federal government have complete control of who comes and where they are placed with virtually no state input (called the Wilson-Fish program), it would require very knowledgeable forensic accountants to follow the money.
Here is the information we previously obtained from the USCCB’s 2012 Annual Report (it is a good thing we captured it at the time!).
Total revenue: $70,975,237
Govt. grants and contracts (includes over $3 million in travel loan income): $69,534,230
Percent taxpayer funded: 98%
We have no idea what salaries are paid in the USCCB Washington office.
A billion dollars a year!
That is how much we are spending (that we know of!) for refugee resettlement, here. That figure does not include subsidized housing, most healthcare, food stamps, other cash assistance, educating the kids or the costs to the criminal justice system!
Churches paying taxes would probably not change the status of the faith group 501 (c) 3 status. It would only penalize the vast number of small parishes ( of other faiths) throughout the country which would probably close down.
As I Lutheran (missouri synod), I am royally PO’ed that we associate with LIRA and LSS which is generally run by the very liberal ELCA.
Look at the budgets of the two links, I would imagine every church based charity helping immigrants is funded mostly by the federal government which means the charity must follow the federal rules.
http://www.give.org/charity-reviews/national/human-services/lutheran-immigration-and-refugee-service-in-baltimore-md-2892
(scroll down and click financial
http://www.lsssd.org/
Click “click here for the LSS Annual Report”
These are government agendas are under the guise of religious charities. The churches do not contribute the vast amount of the budget. The government runs the show.
Currently the LIRS is running commercials pleading for Christian mercy and charity for the migrants.
So when a church does the government bidding political action is allowable, but be opposed and face IRS scrutiny and more.
If you are angry (about the tension in St. Cloud) and want one entity to blame, it is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, the primary federal refugee resettlement agency working in St. Cloud!
Christian social justice is a heresey be it catholic or protestant.
Sobering.
But, isn’t it always: “Follow the money!”?
...social justice? lol
if asshat muslim nations had half a brain, they could have developed the infrastructure that separates us. That way there would be no spread... no social justice needed... and who knows? They might have bettered us. We might have wanted to invade their nations looking for a better life.
But guess what?
Islam didn’t happen to produce shit of benefit to mankind.
So they leech off of western man and continue to be muslims amongst us waiting to push sharia on us.
Worst part? Obama, muslim CIC wants to give us more islam.
Now I understand the buddying up of the Pope and the Muslim.
You know the Muslim has no use for the Pope except as a useful idiot.
but the actual source is
I get that Minnesota has good welfare bennies but if I were Somali never in a million years would I want to live in such a wintry state. But based on my personal experience these tropical types crank up the heat at home. Really crank it up to 85 in the winter.
YUGE HEATING BILLS...... you and I are probably paying. Anyone have info on Minnesota’s heating assistance to the poor and useless foreign imports?
May they rot in He**.
That is...the religious groups.
the Pope is not infallible when it comes to anything...that’s why i put my faith in God before the church...
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oh this is the US Catholic Cardinals. Funny how they’re in court vs the Obama administration on abortion and pill mandates in the ACA that they overall supported, then bringing in $Millions to support his fellow=travelers’ elections. Odd, odd world.
THO.. I am sure the bulk of the $79M was to pay for the actual costs of moving, settling, feeding, housing, clothing, medicating, etc., those refugees/migrants.
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