ADRA is Embarrassing the Church

October 21, 2026 NewsHound


According to Gateway Pundit, another massive migrant caravan is marching through Mexico toward the US border as we enter the final weeks of the midterm election cycle. And ADRA is helping it happen.

The migrants marching in the latest caravan are mostly from Central America and they just departed Mexico’s southern border.

The Central American migrants told journalist Julio Rosas that they hope the Democrats win the midterm elections.

Last month, a migrant caravan was spotted marching toward the US border ahead of the midterm elections.

At least two NGOs are funding this caravan. According to independent reporter Anthony Aguero, “Proyecto Faro and ADRA” are the two main NGOs assisting the migrant caravan.

Tom Homan recently said the migrants will be sent back to their home countries or a third party country.

“They’ll be immediately turned around, or they’ll be arrested and prosecuted and deported,” Homan said.

“Zero releases from the border under the Trump administration. President Trump promised that. He’s going to keep that promise,” he said.

“I hope voters are paying attention,” Homan said. “Remember the images of 12,000 illegals per day coming across the border. Now they want to abolish the agency that finds them and deports them!”

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Another massive Central American migrant caravan is currently marching north through Mexico toward the U.S. border in the final weeks before the midterms, with participants openly telling journalists they hope Democrats win so enforcement will ease.⁠

Independent reporter Anthony Aguero has identified two NGOs—Proyecto Faro and ADRA (the Adventist Development and Relief Agency)—as the primary groups assisting the caravan’s logistics and support.⁠

ADRA is an ideologically-captured arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which wraps itself in the language of neutral Christian charity and “serving all without regard to political affiliation.”

ADRA has a long, documented history of taking tens of millions in USAID and State Department funds under the Biden administration to distribute cash, food, shelter, and other aid to U.S.-bound migrants across Latin America as part of United Nations regional immigration plans. The organization’s own past statements (including board member, Ted Wilson) dismiss accusations of facilitating irregular migration as “patently false.”

‘Follow the money’: Goldman Sachs under fire over $285M money trail in Neville Roy Singham probe

The Economic Times

Jun 29, 2026  

A federal grand jury has launched an investigation into alleged financial crimes tied to tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham, with prosecutors examining a reported $285 million money trail that allegedly moved through a Goldman Sachs philanthropic fund and shell companies into U.S.-based nonprofit groups. The expanding DOJ probe has also placed Goldman Sachs under scrutiny as investigators follow the flow of funds.

A Tycoon Linked to Haitian Gangs Has Died

Tycoon Linked to Haitian Gangs Has Died
Reportedly the wealthiest man in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Gilbert Bigio was sanctioned for ties to criminal gangs. He was 91.

A photo of Gilbert Bigio, holding a Torah scroll.
Gilbert Bigio in 2003 holding a Torah scroll. A scion of immigrant Sephardic Jews from Syria, he was Israel’s honorary consul in Haiti for 25 years.Credit...Larry Luxner

By Adam Nossiter
Oct. 19, 2026

Gilbert Bigio, a Haitian industrialist widely described as the country’s first billionaire, and who was sanctioned by Canada for ties to criminal gangs in his homeland, died on Sept. 29 in Florida. He was 91.

His death was reported in the Haitian press.

With interests in steel, energy, logistics, consumer goods, construction and banking, Mr. Bigio’s holding company, long known as the GB Group and eventually renamed BGO, touched the impoverished island nation’s economy in every corner.

Mr. Bigio’s family remain major players in what the International Monetary Fund and others have described as Haiti’s tiny economic elite. BGO supplies cooking oils and soap to Haitian households, steel from Haiti’s only steel mill to its builders and deepwater port facilities to its shippers. BGO became a regional economic force as well, owning gas stations in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.

The elite plays an outsize role in Haiti’s chaotic politics, and Mr. Bigio appears not to have been an exception, though he stayed largely out of public view and rarely granted interviews. In December 2022, Canada sanctioned him, along with two other Haitian businessmen.

“Canada has reason to believe these individuals are using their status as high-profile members of the economic elite in Haiti to protect and enable the illegal activities of armed criminal gangs, including through money laundering and other acts of corruption,” a foreign ministry statement said.

“The sanctions Canada has imposed are intended to put pressure on those responsible for the ongoing violence and instability in Haiti,” the statement continued. “These people must stop providing funds and weapons to criminal gangs in Haiti.”

According to Reuters, the GB Group did not immediately reply to the sanctions; one Haiti expert, Jake Johnston, of the Center for Economic Policy and Research in Washington, said in an interview that Canada’s decision was a largely “symbolic” move with little practical impact. Members of Mr. Bigio’s family did not respond in recent days to queries for this obituary.

Mr. Johnston said Mr. Bigio’s immense wealth — he bought an ultraluxury $132,000 Mercedes Maybach from the estate of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, The Miami Herald reported — was important to contrast with the brutal poverty of his native land.

World Food Programme Cuts Aid to 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Citing Funding Shortages

By Reuters
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Oct. 19, 2026, at 3:21 a.m.


World Food Programme Cuts Aid to 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Citing Funding Shortages



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Palestinian children wait to receive food from a soup kitchen funded by the World Food Programme (WFP), in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip October 18, 2026. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa


CAIRO/GAZA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The UN World Food Programme ⁠has ⁠said funding shortages are ⁠forcing major cuts to its aid programme in Gaza, leaving ​about 500,000 people without monthly food support in a territory where two-thirds of the population ‌struggle to get enough to eat.

The ‌WFP said it was reducing the number of recipients of its monthly assistance ⁠to 1.1 ⁠million people from 1.6 million.

In addition, food rations have been halved, ​cash assistance has been cut for 75,000 families, and the number of daily hot meals for those unable to cook has fallen to 150,000 from 250,000, with some families in ​hard-to-reach areas now receiving a hot meal only every other day.
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The WFP said ⁠about ⁠1.4 million people, or two-thirds ⁠of Gaza's ​population, face crisis levels of food insecurity or worse, including roughly 200,000 people in ​emergency conditions.

Last year's US-brokered ⁠Gaza ceasefire calls for the eventual reconstruction of the territory. But little progress has been made towards implementing a deal to end the conflict that includes terms for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its troops.

"It's a year into the agreement ⁠of this ceasefire. Well, life is still brutal here. There is no ⁠proper shelter.. There is no basic services. There is no safety, no security," acting Executive Director of the World Food Program WFP Carl Skau told Reuters in Gaza.

"These cuts are happening just as we are facing the fourth winter. You know, I've been through the winters here, absolutely brutal," he added.

The WFP said it urgently needs $450 million over the next six months to maintain critical operations in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

"We tell ⁠the world now is this is not the time to look away. This is the time to step up to sustain this support, to protect the progress that has been made, but also to push for early ​recovery," said Skau.

(Reporting by Nidal Al-Mughrabi in Cairo and Mahmoud Issa ​in Gaza;Editing by David Goodman, William Maclean)


Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.

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US Rep Ilhan Omar accused of being a foreign agent – legal deposition

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at the Capitol in Washington on July 25, 2019. (File photo: AP)


Abdulla Almanai, Al Arabiya English

Published: 25 November, 2019: 12:00 AM GST

Updated: 20 May ,2020: 11:01 AM GST

US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was recruited by a foreign government, passed sensitive information that was relayed to Iran, and received funding by a foreign government, according to a sworn deposition by a Canadian businessman in a Florida court.

In explosive testimony made by video link from Toronto, Canada to a Florida District Court on October 23, Kuwaiti-born Alan Bender claims to have deep ties with governments and royal officials across the Middle East including Qatar. In his statement, he says he met Qatar’s Secretary to the Emir for Security Affairs Mohammad bin Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Masnad and two other senior Qatari officials.

The three allegedly claimed credit for the meteoric rise of Omar, saying: “If it wasn't for our cash, Ilhan Omar would be just another black Somali refugee in America collecting welfare and serving tables on weekends,” according to Bender’s sworn deposition. The deposition was obtained by Al Arabiya English and authenticated by the attorney for the plaintiffs.

Bender was subpoenaed in a lawsuit against the Qatari emir’s brother, Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani, who stands accused of ordering his American bodyguard to murder two people and holding his hired American paramedic prisoner. In his deposition, Bender testifies about his meetings with Al-Masnad and other Qatari officials in which they mentioned the Sheikh Khalid case, and discusses Qatar’s campaign to influence Western politicians.

In the testimony, Bender claims to have been asked to recruit American politicians and journalists to be Qatari assets. He says he objected and the Qatari officials responded by saying that several American politicians and journalists were already on the payroll—most prominently Omar, who was allegedly described as the “jewel of the crown”, according to the deposition.

The controversial congresswoman has already been found to have broken campaign finance rules. The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board ruled in June that Omar violated state campaign finance rules by improperly using campaign money for out-of-state travel while serving as a state representative. In addition, Conservative group Judicial Watch has called on the House Ethics Committee to investigate Omar for alleged offences including immigration fraud, the New York Post reported in July. Last week, the New York Post reported that Omar paid $150,000 to a political consulting group where Tim Mynett is a partner in the three months after the newspaper revealed that the pair were romantically involved.

Bender’s accusations go much further. According to his testimony, Al-Masnad said that Qatar “recruited Ilhan Omar from even way before she thought about becoming a government official.… They groomed her and arranged the foundation, the grounds, for her to get into politics way before she even showed interest. They convinced her.” For her part, Omar cooperated with the Qataris and received cash payments, he alleges in the deposition.

American and Turkish media previously reported that Omar met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a key supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, when she was a junior state representative in Minnesota in 2017. According to Bender, Omar met Erdogan and allegedly swore allegiance to him.

Bender claims that once Omar took office, she used her position in the House of Representatives to access sensitive information which she relayed to Qatar, and through them to Iran.

According to Bender’s deposition, Omar’s role in the Qatari influence campaign is crucial. She actively recruited other politicians on behalf of Qatar, he said in the deposition. The Qataris claimed that “the best thing money can buy are American officials because they are the cheapest of the cheapest costing officials in the world,” according to his sworn testimony.

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Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services were paid $62 MILLION in government grants...

American News

 
Oct 16, 2026

Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services were paid $62 MILLION in gov grants to resettle thousands of Somalis in Minnesota: report

Both Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services have been at forefront of shaping the region in Minnesota with the heavy Somali populaiton.

The Post Millennial

Oct 16, 2026

$62 million was paid out to two Christian groups to build up and settle a sizeable portion of the Somali community in Minnesota, which eventually led to the growth of the Somali population in the state.

Both Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services have been at the forefront of shaping the region in Minnesota with the heavy Somali population, in part because of government contracts that have been going back generations, per the New York Post.

Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Capital Research Center in Washington, DC, told the outlet, "This is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it."

Thayer said that the money flowing into immigration programs in Minneapolis is "in the hundreds of millions.” Since 2021, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has been given over $140 million in federal resettlement contracts, Thayer said. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops oversees Catholic Charities.

“It is hurting the ability of these organizations to fundraise in arguably more important areas of their work. I imagine a lot of donors are being pushed away by something that is very reasonably viewed as highly controversial by a lot of people,” he added.

Highlights from the 81st annual Al Smith Dinner in NYC

 Highlights from the 81st annual Al Smith Dinner in NYC

FOX 5 New York

Oct 16, 2026
The star-studded gala at the Waldorf Astoria raised millions for Catholic Charities and featured some of NYC's most powerful and influential figures, including Mayor Mamdani, NYPD Commissioner Tisch, Archbishop Hicks, and Cardinal Dolan. FOX 5 NY's Sharon Crowley reports.

Supreme Court Set to Hear Case Involving Religious Exemptions for Private Schools to Receive Public Funds

by Craig Nash | Oct 6, 2026 | News

(Credit: Mark Thomas / Pixabay / https://tinyurl.com/5tnsvvak)

Among a handful of religious-liberty cases the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) will hear this session, which began yesterday, one pits a Colorado nondiscrimination law against the state’s Universal Preschool Program (UPK). The early childhood program provides preschool tuition for up to 15 hours per week for students in their final year before kindergarten. Yet Colorado law prohibits funding for preschools that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Two Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Denver contend the nondiscrimination policy, which forbids them from denying admission to students with same-sex parents, violates their First Amendment rights. They have refused to sign the nondiscrimination agreement, denying them state funds from the UPK program.

According to Linda Greenhouse, who covers SCOTUS cases for The New York Times, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy concerns a 2022 ruling that declared Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from receiving publicly funded private school subsidies was unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the Colorado case are arguing that the religious exemption in the Maine case also applies to Colorado religious schools.

The State of Colorado argues that the Maine decision prohibited disqualifying private schools from public funding solely because they provided religious education. They contend that their refusal to allow a school to receive UPK funds has nothing to do with the schools’ right to provide religious education, but with their refusal to serve particular students.

The case, scheduled to appear before the court in early November, will clarify what counts as a religious exemption in public education.

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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.

Taxpayer-Funded Researchers Push Depopulation for “Sustainability”

 

Taxpayer-Funded Researchers Push Depopulation for “Sustainability”

The New American Video

Sep 28, 2026

A new taxpayer-funded “study” published in a UN-aligned journal argues that the human population must be slashed by 50 percent—to about 4 billion people by 2200—for “sustainable development.” Those who remain, the authors say, will have to accept a much lower standard of living, more restrictions on consumption, and even “resource quotas.”

On this episode of Behind The Deep State, The New American’s Alex Newman exposes the latest neo-Malthusian push for depopulation. He breaks down the paper in Sustainable Development, its ties to the UN’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and the long history of this anti-human ideology—from Thomas Malthus and the Club of Rome to John Holdren and open calls at UN climate summits. Newman also notes what the study ignores: fertility rates have already collapsed below replacement in much of the world, and the real demographic crisis is coming from too few people, not too many.

Your tax dollars helped fund this. Don’t miss this must-see episode.

Pro-China network fuels nationwide US protests as Xi meets Trump

 

Congress returns to Washington as lawmakers race to fund government before midterms

 

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Teacher unions funnel funds to Democratic lawmakers

The influence of teacher unions

By Esther Wickham | The Center Square




Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at a town hall in Las Vegas, Feb. 9, 2020. Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Cropped from Original

(The Center Square) – The nation’s two largest teachers' unions directed thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to Democratic members of key congressional education committees, according to federal campaign finance records reviewed by The Center Square.

The congressional members whose campaigns received the money supported legislation favoring schools and teachers.

The National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers represent millions of educators nationwide and are among the most politically active labor organizations in the country. The NEA has about 3 million members, while the AFT represents roughly 1.8 million.

Lance Izumi of the Pasadena, Calif.-based Pacific Research Institute said teacher unions' political spending can influence education policy at the federal, state and local levels.

Editor's Note

This is the third in a series on teacher unions, their influence on elected officials and the cost to taxpayers.

Izumi described the national teachers' unions as an “800-pound gorilla” in education politics and pointed to issues including charter schools and school choice as examples of areas where unions have sought to shape policy.

“They don't want the competition,” Izumi, senior director of PRI's Center for Education, told The Center Square during an exclusive interview.

Unions are funded with dues taken out of teacher paychecks, so critics say the taxpayers are basically funding the lobbying and campaign contributions.

The Center Square reached out to both the NEA and AFT multiple times for comments, but union officials did not respond.

Bombshell! Over 80% of Catholic Bishops Revenue Came From Immigration

 

US evangelical body welcomes government announcement of $2 billion for faith-based global health work

By CDI Staff Aug 11, 2026 06:09 EDT 

A newly acquired Boeing 757 sits outside the Samaritan's Purse Airlift Response Center at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse

The National Association of Evangelicals has praised a U.S. government announcement directing nearly $2 billion in health and humanitarian funding through faith-based organizations, calling it an encouraging sign that global compassion work will remain a national priority.

The State Department announced on Aug. 6 that the investment represents the largest allocation of global health foreign assistance to faith-based organizations in more than 20 years. Awards will support services in more than 20 countries and are expected to reach 7 million people across 16 humanitarian crises.

"Faith-based hospitals, clinics, community health workers and humanitarian organizations combine trusted local relationships with compassionate service," NAE President Walter Kim said in a statement issued Aug. 10.

Galen Carey, the NAE's vice president of government relations, said the announcement signals that such partnerships will endure. "The administration's announcement is a big boost to those efforts and an encouraging sign that lifesaving global health partnership will remain a national priority for years to come," he said.

The funding is divided into two streams. Approximately $1.4 billion is designated for health services — including an $850 million, five-year Faith and Community Initiative Award to World Vision and its consortium partners, along with $570 million channeled through agreements with country governments. That portion is projected to strengthen more than 2,500 faith-based hospitals and clinics across 17 countries and fund the training of more than 30,000 community health workers. Programs supported include vaccinations, HIV/AIDS treatment, Ebola response and nutrition initiatives.

The remaining $538 million will go toward humanitarian assistance through Samaritan's Purse and a World Vision–Compassion International consortium. More than $100 million is immediately available for natural disaster response across 23 disaster-prone countries, the State Department said.

One notable feature of the awards is a requirement that at least 80 percent of resources go directly toward frontline health services. That compares with the 35 to 40 percent the State Department has historically allocated in comparable programs — a shift the NAE indicated reflects the efficiency and community embeddedness that faith-based organizations bring to global health delivery.

The announcement comes after a turbulent period for U.S. international assistance. Following significant changes to foreign aid programs in 2025, the NAE issued a statement titled "Compassion for a World in Need," urging evangelical Christians to support global compassion ministries and calling on Congress to preserve poverty-focused aid delivered through faith-based partners. The Aug. 6 State Department announcement was received by the organization as a positive response to those concerns.

The NAE has long maintained that faith-based organizations occupy a distinct position in global health and humanitarian work — not only as service providers, but as institutions embedded in local communities with relationships that government agencies cannot replicate. Kim and Carey both framed the funding as a recognition of that role, and as an investment in long-term, trust-based partnerships rather than short-term contracting.

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DOJ policy changes leave unaccompanied minors at risk of deportation, some lawmakers say

 

Legal program for child migrants closes

Legal program for child closes

KTSM 9 NEWS 

Aug 1, 2026

Estrella del Paso, a full-service immigration legal aid agency serving low-income immigrants and refugees, has shut down its legal program for unaccompanied migrant children after the Trump administration declined to renew its federal contract and withheld nearly $1 million in reimbursements for legal services the nonprofit says it already completed.

Fauci journals prove he funded research that created COVID-19, biologist says | Elizabeth Vargas Rep

 

Fauci journals prove he funded research that created COVID-19, biologist says | Elizabeth Vargas Rep

NewsNation

Jul 29, 2026  #VargasReports

Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to appear on Capitol Hill on Wednesday after being subpoenaed to testify about the origins of COVID-19. Dr. Richard Ebright, a professor of biology at Rutgers, has testified on this issue before, and tells NewsNation's Rich McHugh that the recent pages from Fauci's private journals are beyond damning.

Black Lives Matter: The Untold Story of Corruption and Controversy

 

Black Lives Matter: The Untold Story of Corruption and Controversy

FORGOTTEN HISTORY

Apr 24, 2025

Black Lives Matter (BLM) was one of the most influential movements of the 21st century, but behind the slogans and protests lies a deeper, more controversial story. From its origins in 2013 to its rise in 2020 and the shocking revelations of misused funds, this episode dives into the real history of BLM that the media won’t tell you. 

Who founded BLM and why? 

What was its real impact on communities? 

How did it amass millions in donations—and where did the money go? 

Why did key leaders step down, and what does the future hold for the movement? 

Join us as we uncover the hard facts behind one of the most debated organizations in modern history. Written and hosted by Colin D. Heaton. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production.

NGO's

Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson

Jul 12, 2026 

NGO’s, or non-governmental organizations, feed the hungry and provide medical care to victims of disasters in the US and around the world. but your tax dollars help fund them, and many use that to push political agendas. Scott Thuman investigates.

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