Posted on 02/06/2025 8:51:34 PM PST by DoodleBob
… At a press panel following the event, a group of faith leaders, including members of the evangelical community that has long been a base of support for Trump, said they were concerned about the president's recent moves to dismantle the US Agency for International Development as part of his cost-cutting efforts.
"We affirm that there are aspects of our foreign aid programs that should be ended and others that could be reformed for greater effectiveness," Galen Carey, the vice president of government relations at the National Association of Evangelicals, said. "However, this review and reform can be achieved without the wholesale disruption of the many programs that are working well and saving lives."
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"We affirm the goal of eliminating wasteful spending throughout government but caution against hastily pursued measures that will prove costly. The abrupt closure of many effective aid programs will mean that some of the money already spent will have been wasted," Carey said. "Commodities will be lost and food will rot, medicines expire. Other supplies may be stolen or misappropriated …."
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Emily Chambers Sharpe, the director of Health and Nutrition at World Relief, a Christian humanitarian organization, said the "stop-work orders have made things really challenging for us in the last few weeks."
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Gabriel Salguero, the National Latino Evangelical Coalition president, said he has seen how US foreign aid saves lives.
"The President just finished saying he wants to be known as a peacemaker and as a person who builds bridges, and we think that foreign aid and PEPFAR are two key instruments or two key tools to contribute to that legacy," he said, referring to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The long-running foreign aid program former President George W. Bush launched in 2003 is also on the chopping block.
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Methinks they doth protest too much!.................
Just like clockwork, here comes the charlatans
His job title explains a lot.
Legitimate Christian organizations don't rely on government funding for their existence.
If you research the three evangelicals, they’re all of a leftish feather.
https://www.vitapoetica.org/emily-chambers-sharpe
Emily Chambers Sharpe lives in Charlotte, NC, with her husband, three young sons, and the best dog in the world. Through her day job, she supports global health projects to consider the ways that gender and social norms are a driver and a barrier to improved
https://squareonejustice.org/expert/gabriel-salguero/
The Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero has written extensively on Latino evangelicalism, immigration, racism, and multicultural congregations. Salguero has been named as one of the nation’s most prominent Latino evangelical leaders by the New York Times, Huffington Post, the New York Observer, the Center for American Progress, El Diario, CNN Español, NBC Universal, Univisión, and Jorge Ramos’s Al Punto. In addition, his leadership on issues of young male education and criminal justice reform has been featured by the Discovery Channel and the Oprah Winfrey Network.
https://www.interfaithamerica.org/people/galen-carey/
Galen Carey, National Association of Evangelicals vice president of government relations, is responsible for representing the NAE before Congress, the White House and the courts. He works to advance the approach and principles of the NAE document, “For the Health of the Nation.” He is also co-author with Leith Anderson of “Faith in the Voting Booth.” Before joining the NAE staff, Carey was a longtime employee of World Relief, the relief and development arm of the NAE, serving in Croatia, Mozambique, Kenya, Indonesia and Burundi.
“Emily Chambers Sharpe”
TOTAL LEFTIST with that name. It is up to Christians to PAY ATTENTION to who runs their organizations, or they slip-in and run them.
Wolves in sheeps clothing.
Look at who else just crawled out from under their rock. It’s the phony religious hoaxers.
Tax ‘em all!
"Bishop Mariann Budde, who famously criticized Trump during an inaugural prayer service, has been found to have pocketed a staggering $53 million in taxpayer funds through her organization, Episcopal Migration Ministries.
Clearly they hijacked the name “evangelical” to disguise their progressive agenda (kind of like the national council of churches).
The media can’t get away with this deception anymore We no longer naively accept these organizations at face value.
omegalul slush funds are ending top kek
You are 100% correct!
BTTT
Hah!
Look how many multi-millions they get to harbor illegal aliens.
A few Lutheran groups alone got more than half a billion dollars in just the last year.
Assuredly slush fund recipients.
It seems a lot of churches have become addicted to the public dole. This money is used to influence them, and that influence is broadcast from the pulpit. Social justice, illegal immigration, perversion.
How ‘bout the evangelicals start paying their “fair share”. You want to play politics, put your money where your big mouth is.
Please do not listen, Mr. President!
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