Today, nearly 2.5 million children worldwide are fed by Mary’s Meals, a global movement founded by Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow.

Even during ordinary times, a lack of inclusive transportation can mean missing essential health appointments; during an emergency such as the California wildfires, it can be fatal.

Around the world, health, nutrition, civil society and peace-building programs are unraveling, staff are being dismissed and the lights are being turned off.

The Trump administration's recent attacks on the resources and structures that serve the poor and on the religious institutions that serve the most vulnerable are unprecedented in their scale, pace and human impact.

Halting the work of U.S.A.I.D. “will kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty.”

When I worked for U.S.A.I.D., I was not a churchgoer, but the moral vision was clear: We Americans, in our affluence, must reach out to those in need with generosity.