ADRA Helping to Fund Migrant Caravan Marching To United States Border

ADRA Helping to Fund Migrant Caravan Marching To United States Border

September 28, 2026 NewsHound

A migrant caravan is marching toward the US border ahead of the midterm elections. More than 400 aliens from the Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday en route to the United States, Reuters has confirmed. By now, the group has swelled to under 1,000 according to latest reports.

At least two NGOs are funding this caravan. ADRA and Proyecto Faro, according to independent reporter Anthony Aguero. Both NGO’s are ideologically aligned with the political, or progressive, left.

• Proyecto Faro, the immigrant support nonprofit out of Rockland County, New York, is funded by a mix of foundations, nonprofits, and government grants. Mainly funded by a Jewish Foundation, The Harry Donenfeld Foundation, named for the Jewish immigrant who co-founded DC Comics.
• ADRA stands for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, its the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a progressive denomination. Its biggest funder is the U.S. government, mainly USAID, which has given it roughly three hundred eighty-five million dollars. Their last report clarifies they were given at least 36 million US dollars by the end of 2025… more to come.

In January of last year, ADRA (which has championed climate change initiatives, mass immigration, and United Nations inclusions) was named on national television for helping to facilitate mass illegal immigration into the united states.

ADRA receives a large portion of its budget from the United States government and the United Nations, and thus is forbidden to proselytize. It has become just another NGO among hundreds, with post-Christian values and a program of uprooting patriarchy and traditional societies, promoting feminism, and of empowering all-pervasive totalitarian government. Ted Wilson took office in 2010 with the hope of reforming ADRA (and La Sierra), but failed at both. ADRA has its own value system and is, like our hospitals and medical school, only very loosely affiliated with the SDA Church and its message and value system.

Under the guise of being humanitarian, ADRA has supported these issues.

National Reform is Church and State (with text) | A. T. Jones

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In direct appeal to Trump, Catholic bishops' president urges end of mass deportations of Haitians

(RNS) — The letter marks a shift toward a more direct and pointed tone in challenging President Donald Trump’s immigration policy.

Community members hold a protest rally as immigrants enter an ICE facility at a Department of Homeland Security field office during a mandatory check in where most received ankle monitors, after thousands of Haitians lost Temporary Protected Status (TPS), in Blue Ash, Ohio on Aug. 9, 2026. (RNS photo/Carol Guzy)

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September 9, 2026 at 5:31 p.m. ET

(RNS) — Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference president, sent a letter on Tuesday (Sept. 8), urging President Donald Trump to cease the deportation of “large numbers” of Haitian immigrants.

Citing the violence in Haiti, Coakley wrote: “As citizens of this great country, we have been entrusted with a tremendous moral responsibility, and this is true most of all for you as our head of state, Mr. President. To this end, I respectfully ask: What good is the immense wealth, prosperity, and influence with which we have been blessed as a nation if not used in service of our humanity?”

The letter’s language marked a notable hardening in tone from the U.S. bishops’ conference, though Coakley also wrote that he was “humbly” appealing for Trump’s assistance.

Last November, the U.S. bishops’ conference released a special pastoral message calling for an end to “indiscriminate mass deportation,” a sign of how seriously the conference is taking deportation policies that could impact nearly 1 in 5 U.S. Catholics directly or through their family. But that message did not name Trump.

In his letter this week, Coakley wrote that he was inspired by the massacre of 47 people in Haiti’s Kenscoff farming community to write. Some of the people killed had been taking refuge in a church, and some of those killed were children. Coakley called the violence “unconscionable.”

“I very much wish this recent and tragic example of human life being extinguished, virtually with impunity, was an irregularity in Haiti. Unfortunately, it is not,” Coakley wrote. He told Trump that deportations endanger “innocent human life” and “contribute to the country’s already deepening crisis.”

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National Cleaning Day: SDA Church Seeks Alternative Participation Date

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The Deputy Secretary General of the NRM, Rose Namayanja, has called on Seventh-day Adventists to remain committed to environmental cleanliness while faithfully observing the Sabbath. 

She says government and church leaders are consulting to agree on an alternative day for SDA members to participate in the National Cleaning Exercise.

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Namayanja Rose Nsereko (born 18 August 1975) is a Ugandan lawyer, columnist, author, security sector manager and politician. She is the current Deputy Secretary General of Uganda's ruling party.[1]

Namayanja is a former National Treasurer of Uganda's ruling party, The National Resistance Movement (NRM). She is also the former Minister of Information and National Guidance in the Cabinet of Uganda, a position she held from 23 May 2013,[2] until 1 March 2015.[3] Prior to that, she served as Minister of State for Luwero Triangle in the Prime Minister's office, from 27 May 2011 until 24 May 2013. She replaced Thembo Nyombi, who was appointed State Minister for Information Technology.[4] Namayanja also served as the elected Member of Parliament for Nakaseke District Women Representative from 2006 to 2016.[5] She was a founder member of the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD), the youth wing of Uganda's Democratic Party (DP) that was known for its radicalism in the mid-1990s.[6][7]

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Mayor Brandon Johnson meets with Pope Leo, invites him to visit Chicago

Johnson said he thanked the first-ever Chicago born pope for his courage and moral stance against endless wars.

By Craig Wall and Lissette Nuñez

  
Friday, May 29, 2026 6:19AM

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson met with Pope Leo XIV Thursday and invited him to visit Chicago in 2027.

Johnson and Pope Leo met privately Thursday for nearly an hour.

The mayor said he and the pope share ideals, including their stance against the U.S. war in Iran, and pushing back against actions carried out by the Trump administration during "Operation Midway Blitz."

"Of course we shared the legacy of leadership and organizing in civil rights in Chicago," Mayor Johnson said. "I believe he took that to heart. Ultimately, that is going to be his decision on whether or not his schedule is going to allow for it. Who would have thought that a middle school teacher, the son of a pastor, would be in the Vatican talking to the pope who has his roots in the city of Chicago? I believe that he was definitely appreciative of the warm exchange and invite and we will look forward to hosting Mass in Chicago."



Mayor Johnson and aldermen reflected on meeting the Chicago-born pope.

During the historic visit, they discussed politics, immigration, baseball and Chicago faith connections.

Johnson said the meeting brought him a sense of peace and comfort.

"I think the pastoral moment was the first question that he asked was, 'How's Chicago? How's Chicago?' And you know I was able to say that you know Chicago is strong," Johnson said.

The trip is funded in part by World Business Chicago, an economic development agency.

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Interfaith vigil remembers immigration enforcement victims

Dozens formed a tight circle at Joe Creason Park Friday night in the cold to unite their voices in support of neighbors living in fear for their safety.

By Meredith Lea
Published: Jan. 30, 2026 at 10:32 PM EST

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Dozens of people who originally planned to meet inside St. Agnes Catholic Church instead formed a tight circle at Joe Creason Park Friday night, holding candles in the cold to unite their voices in support of neighbors living in fear for their safety.

Congressman Morgan McGarvey organized the interfaith vigil to remember people he describes as victims of brutality by federal immigration agents under the Department of Homeland Security’s command. The most recent cases, the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, are bringing people of different religious and political stripes together on this issue.

“We’ve had very high-profile deaths at the hands of federal agents, but there’s a lot of quiet terrors going on, too,” said Rev. Rachel Small Stokes of Emanuel United Church of Christ.

Rev. Kent Gilbert of Union Church in Berea said the gathering crossed demographic and political lines.

“This was every demographic. This was every political party. This was not political. This was moral,” Gilbert said.

For some attendees, like Mayra Ramos Johnson, who immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, the fear feels like a personal confrontation.

“Everything can happen. And, you know, I have a boy that is seven. I don’t want my son to be scared,” Johnson said. “Just the trauma that the kids can have. Just for an officer to stop you and ask you based on your looks or your accent. That’s not fair.”

The group said their words have to be backed up with action and pressure.

“We have to stand up for what’s right. We have to stand up with each other and speak out against what we’re seeing,” McGarvey said.

Johnson said unity is needed now.

“I think now is the time to get united... we all have the same purpose to, you know, improve this world, this country, this city. So, like, we just need to support each other,” she said.

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Venezuelan opposition leader meets with Pope Leo ahead of Trump trip Story

by Anthony Faiola

Venezuelan opposition leader meets with Pope Leo ahead of Trump trip© Andrea Hernández Briceño/for The Washington Post

VATICAN CITY — On a mission to lobby for a democratic transition in Venezuela following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado met Monday with Pope Leo XIV ahead of her trip to Washington to see President Donald Trump.

Machado’s previously unannounced meeting with the pontiff, confirmed by the Vatican, came as the Holy See has emerged as a significant interlocutor on the future of Venezuela, and as Machado is pushing for a shift away from the authoritarian left-wing power structure that remains in place despite the Jan. 3 U.S. mission that seized the Venezuelan leader. In a photo published by the Vatican following the meeting, Machado, clad in a black dress and wearing a white rosary, shook hands as she and Leo smiled.

On Friday, The Washington Post reported that Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state and the No. 2 at the Vatican, had sought to caution American officials in December against rash action in Venezuela and to nudge Maduro toward a Russian offer of asylum.

Machado and the Venezuela opposition have hailed Maduro’s capture and praised Trump for ordering the mission. But they have been privately alarmed by the White House decision to, at least for now, back Maduro’s No. 2, Delcy Rodríguez, as interim leader. The opposition is now locked in a tug-of-war for international influence with the still-ruling leftists in power, arguing that a democratic transition is the only answer to Venezuela’s future.

Pope Leo XIV meets with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Machado at the Vatican, on Monday.© Simone Risoluti/via REUTERS

Minneapolis Catholic leaders speak out about community fear after ICE-involved shooting

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A rosary is draped over a cross as people gather by a makeshift memorial in Minneapolis Jan. 8, 2026, at the scene of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. The 37-year-old woman was shot in her car Jan. 7, according to local and federal officials. (OSV News/Reuters/Tim Evans)


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An interfaith gathering of faith leaders in Minneapolis Jan. 8 drew a crowd as faith leaders raised concerns about the impact immigration enforcement actions are having on people in the community, including Catholic parishes in Minneapolis.

The outdoor gathering was held one day after a woman identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good was shot and killed by a federal immigration agent in south Minneapolis. Police said a preliminary investigation indicated the victim was in her vehicle and was blocking the roadway, and that she had not been the target of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the neighborhood.

Fr. Dale Korogi, pastor of Ascension Catholic Church in north Minneapolis, was among clergy and religious leaders who spoke at the interfaith gathering. He said his parish was founded by German and Irish immigrants and has been "sustained by Mexican and Latin American immigrants."

"The Catholic communion, therefore, has always been deeply concerned about the rights and the well-being of immigrants and migrants and refugees," Korogi said. "A faith community is home for so many immigrants to this place."

The gathering was held near a makeshift memorial for Good that included flowers, signs and a wooden cross draped with a rosary.

"In our parish's 130 years, I would argue that last month, December, was the most painful time we have ever experienced," Korogi said. "At a time when we would gather every evening for prayer and celebration, to celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe and to celebrate Christmas, events were canceled. Our church was quiet. Our families, as you know, were afraid to leave their homes."

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Vice President Vance presents a Christian vision of politics

U.S. Vice President JD Vance. | Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

By Amira Abuzeid

CNA Staff, Dec 23, 2025 / 14:27 pm

U.S. Vice President JD Vance, America’s second Catholic vice president, laid out a distinctly Christian vision for American politics in a speech this week, declaring that “the only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been and, by the grace of God, we always will be a Christian nation.”

Speaking to more than 30,000 young conservatives at Turning Point USA’s AmFest 2025 some three months after the death of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, Vance called for a politics rooted in a Christian faith that honors the family, protects the weak, and rejects what he described as a decades-long “war” on Christianity in public life.

The Christian faith has provided a “shared moral language” since the nation’s founding, the Yale-trained lawyer argued, which led to “our understanding of natural law and rights, our sense of duty to one’s neighbor, the conviction that the strong must protect the weak, and the belief in individual conscience.”

“Christianity is America’s creed,” the vice president said to loud cheers, while acknowledging that not everyone needs to be a Christian and “we must respect each individual’s pathway” to God. Even so, he said, “even our famously American idea of religious liberty is a Christian concept.”

Vance described how, over the past several decades, “freedom of religion transformed into freedom from religion” as a result of the cultural assault on Christian faith from those on “the left” who have “labored to push Christianity out of national life. They’ve kicked it out of the schools, out of the workplace, out of the fundamental parts of the public square.”

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