Action item at the end! The Netherlands-based Catholic Organization for Relief and Development Aid (Cordaid), which co-founded and is currently a member of the Vatican-run Caritas Internationalis, partnered with Planned Parenthood for the creation of a contraception-pushing sex education program called Jeune S3. In fact, this program is working directly to undermine Catholic moral authority and teaching among vulnerable populations. Originally formed in 1914 as Mensen in Nood (People in … [Read more...]
Get the FACTS about Catholic Relief Services!
Since the Rice Bowl campaign for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) began on Ash Wednesday, Catholics have been asking us for a flyer that expresses the problems at CRS to show why they should NOT participate in the annual Rice Bowl collection. So, we did just that. You can download a .pdf version of the flyer, which looks just like the top image for this article, by clicking the link here. For a version with less color, you can download the alternate version here. Here's that it looks … [Read more...]
Catholic Relief Services Used/Promoted Pornographic, Contraception-Promoting Curriculums
For the last two months, we have been publishing segments of a year long investigation of Catholic Relief Services projects. We showed documents produced by CRS for the 4Children project included the promotion of condoms. We proved that CRS was the custodian of a website that included abortion and contraception promoting documents. We proved that in two CRS-led projects, CRS created local networks that referred young girls to abortion and contraception promoting organizations for sexual and … [Read more...]
Summary of Catholic Relief Services Reports from 2020
Since the beginning of March, the Lepanto Institute has been publishing segments of a highly detailed report which is the result of a year-long investigation into CRS projects in Africa. This page is intended to provide a simple and easy-to-use summary of those investigations with links to each segment. These individual reports are all connected to CRS projects related to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) which are funded by both USAID and PEPFAR, two of the largest contraception … [Read more...]
Catholic Relief Services Caught in Contraception Indoctrination Scheme
In at least four African countries, Catholic Relief Services is implementing portions of a project called Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored, and Safe women (DREAMS). CRS’s implementation of the DREAMS project is separate from 4Children, but as an OVC project, there does tend to be some intersectionality where the projects overlap. The problem with CRS implementing the DREAMS project is that a large portion of it involves the promotion of contraception and condoms. The … [Read more...]