Musk’s federal takeover produced significant collateral damage. Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. church’s global humanitarian relief and development agency, had been U.S.A.I.D.’s biggest faith-based international partner.

A scholarship program in Belize funded by U.S.A.I.D. gave me an incredible opportunity to change my life for the better. I saw it as proof that the United States was practicing love toward its neighbors.

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.