For over a year, the Lepanto Institute and Population Research Institute (PRI) conducted a joint investigation into Catholic Relief Services projects in three African countries: Cameroon, Zimbabwe and Lesotho. Through a combination of primary resource materials obtained from federal documents, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and CRS project partners and sources, as well as information and materials obtained by a team of researchers in these three countries, Lepanto and PRI have concluded that … [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 Sued by Same-Sex “Married” Employee
In apparent anticipation of the June 15 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that the 1964 Civil Rights Act extends anti-discrimination protections to homosexuals and transgenders, an anonymous plaintiff going by John Doe (a man in a same-sex “marriage”), filed a lawsuit on Friday, June 12, against Catholic Relief Services for sexual discrimination and “breach of contract, detrimental reliance, and negligent misrepresentation.” In the lawsuit, Doe accuses Catholic Relief Services … [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...]
