Jack Jenkins

1 month ago | wordandway.org | Jack Jenkins |Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Responding to reports that President Donald Trump’s administration has touted “zeroing out” foreign aid, faith-based groups that receive government funding to offer assistance abroad and their religious allies are sounding the alarm that they cannot replace the agency’s crucial relief efforts on their own. At a meeting that took place Feb.

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Jack Jenkins |Michael Sean Winters

A discussion centered on whether the federal government should be dispensing foreign aid, which government officials referred to as 'philanthropy' A woman waves a "Christians for USAID" poster Feb. 5, 2025, at a rally near the U.S. Capitol supporting the U.S. Agency for International Development, known as USAID. The agency, a top funder of Catholic Relief Services and other humanitarian work worldwide, is under threat as the Trump administration moves to dismantle it.

2 months ago | julieroys.com | Jack Jenkins |Julie Roys

A prominent Lutheran leader invoked the story of a martyr while defending work to help the needy after Elon Musk, a billionaire who runs the Department of Government Efficiency, described federal funding for Lutheran aid organizations as “illegal” over the weekend. Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the country, posted a video debunking comments by Musk and others on Sunday.

Jan 22, 2025 | wordandway.org | Jack Jenkins |Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

WASHINGTON (RNS) — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office appears to keep all but a few refugees from entering the country, saying that the United States lacks the resources to absorb them. The measure, titled “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program,” was among a blitz of executive orders Trump signed in the hours after he was inaugurated.

Jan 10, 2025 | churchleaders.com | Jack Jenkins |Adelle M. Banks

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A prestigious group of mourners, including a slate of current, former and future presidents and vice presidents, assembled in the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday (Jan. 9) for the state funeral of President Jimmy Carter, celebrating the life and legacy of the peanut farmer-turned-politician from Plains, Georgia.