The state muscled them aside. As soon as government gets involved in welfarism, charities start to have money problems and fade away. They can't compete. People say to themselves, "If the government is going to do this, that takes care of it and we don't need to burden ourselves with this any more. We pay taxes for it."
For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, this is a POWERFUL reason never to let the state get involved in charity work (and that's what it is). Private charities almost always have the goal -- and a strong dollar incentive to remind them -- of getting their clients off charity and back on their feet. The state has impelling reasons to make the poor and the infirm dependent and keep them on welfare, which increases its own power and wealth. Private charities are fueled by love of God. State welfarism is driven by bureaucratic aggression.
And that is the morning's sermonette :-)
That's what I thought. The government makes money off of everyone's misery. They even create misery for profit.
The State has deliberately dismantled everything that worked, just to push their own agenda. Not to mention ridding this country of anything to do with religion.