Trump admin will directly help Christians in the Middle East rather than use ‘ineffective’ UN progra

[redleghunter]

Knowing Trump this aid will probably be gift cards to Trump hotels and golf courses with half of it already donated to his re-election fund.

It's US Aid.

 

[redleghunter]

Hi RLH,

Uhhh, ok if you say so. I hope you understand that your supporting evidence doesn't say that the Trump family gave any of their money to benefit the hospital.

Here's an article that tends to explain that while the Trump Foundation does hand out a lot of money in charitable donations through it's work, the money itself is rarely Donald Trump's money. He's good at getting other people to support a cause. I'm talking about Donald Trump himself not being a particularly generous person. This doesn't in any way mean that his son, not Donald Trump, heads up a fundraising operation that takes from the rich and gives to the poor. It's just that 'the rich' doesn't seem to ever include Donald Trump himself as one of those generous donors.

Trump and the Truth: His Charitable Giving

Individuals that comprise a family can often have different personalities and take on different roles in the things that they spend their personal time on. I was watching 60 Minutes on Sunday and they did an expose on one of the Koch brothers. While two of the brothers are very high profile, always making loads of money kinds of guys, the third brother, while still fabulously wealthy because of the family money that was handed down, isn't like them in living a life that's all about making more and more money. I'm not saying that the third brother is particularly generous either, the expose' didn't ever bring up that part of his life. I'm only saying that Eric Trump and Donald Trump do obviously seem to have a different understanding of the goals of life.

Here's another article that shows that while Eric Trump does seem to have a true altruistic heart, even the items that his father put towards this particular event got paid for. Donald Trump did not allow his son to make use of the golf course for free, which would have been his part of any charitable donation to the cause.

Trump and the Truth: His Charitable Giving

Now, you're certainly free to believe what you will about this issue, but the very core nature of Donald Trump does seem to be pretty narcissistic and stingy. Prior to his run for the presidency, I've never seen any story that Donald Trump gave some large amount of money to a charity out of his own pocketbook. Donald Trump has a phalanx of corporate attorneys who have well schooled him on how he can make money by running foundations that give away other people's money.

God bless,
In Christ, ted

I apologize for joining you in making this about Trump and not the US providing direct support to Christians via US Aid and private Christian charities.

I rarely post in the political threads and now see everything here is personal against or for the personality called Trump instead of his actions as POTUS.

 

[Qvashti]

Trump admin will directly help Christians in the Middle East rather than use ‘ineffective’ UN programs

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 27, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Vice President Pence announced Wednesday that the U.S. will provide relief to persecuted Christians in the Middle East directly through USAID rather than “ineffective” United Nations programs.

“It is my privilege to announce that President Trump has ordered the State Department to stop funding ineffective relief efforts at the United Nations,” Pence told the In Defense of Christians summit. “From this day forward, America will provide support directly to persecuted communities through USAID.”

USAID is a government agency that provides foreign assistance.

It “carries out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade partners for the United States, and fosters good will abroad,” its website says.

USAID also describes itself as “the world's largest family planning bilateral donor.” It’s unclear whether its well-documented promotion of contraception will have anything to do with relief efforts in the Middle East.

Pence noted that although the Obama administration devoted “well over a billion dollars in humanitarian aid to the Middle East,” most of that money went through the UN, which “has too often failed to help the most vulnerable communities, especially religious minorities.”

Trump admin will directly help Christians in the Middle East rather than use ‘ineffective’ UN programs

That's great news. Christianity will broke through and the gates of hell will not prevail. As cliche as that sounds it's reality. If He uses Trump then wonders never cease.

 

[elliott95]

That's great news. Christianity will broke through and the gates of hell will not prevail. As cliche as that sounds it's reality. If He uses Trump then wonders never cease.

As WWII broke out, the Chinese communists and the Chinese Nationalists were bitter, mortal enemies at war with each other. When Japanese attacked, their love of country had them cooperating against an existential enemy to them both.

Well I guess the paraphrase here would be that you will know a Chinese by their love.
The differences between the Nationalists and the Socialist in China at that time was great, greater than the differences between groups in America today.

"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

They will know that you are Christian by your love.
I see that in your post.
I do see the love-for your fellow Christians in the ME that is.
If Trump is the vehicle, then so be it.

 

[Qvashti]

Well I guess the paraphrase here would be that you will know a Chinese by their love.

I think you meant you will know a Christian by their love didn't you?

 

[Servant68]

I apologize for joining you in making this about Trump and not the US providing direct support to Christians via US Aid and private Christian charities.

I rarely post in the political threads and now see everything here is personal against or for the personality called Trump instead of his actions as POTUS.

It's best not to participate in these threads. There is much hate and vitriol for conservatives and Trump in particular. I will probably get a warning for simply saying that much...

 

[JacksBratt]

Trump admin will directly help Christians in the Middle East rather than use ‘ineffective’ UN programs

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 27, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Vice President Pence announced Wednesday that the U.S. will provide relief to persecuted Christians in the Middle East directly through USAID rather than “ineffective” United Nations programs.

“It is my privilege to announce that President Trump has ordered the State Department to stop funding ineffective relief efforts at the United Nations,” Pence told the In Defense of Christians summit. “From this day forward, America will provide support directly to persecuted communities through USAID.”

USAID is a government agency that provides foreign assistance.

It “carries out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade partners for the United States, and fosters good will abroad,” its website says.

USAID also describes itself as “the world's largest family planning bilateral donor.” It’s unclear whether its well-documented promotion of contraception will have anything to do with relief efforts in the Middle East.

Pence noted that although the Obama administration devoted “well over a billion dollars in humanitarian aid to the Middle East,” most of that money went through the UN, which “has too often failed to help the most vulnerable communities, especially religious minorities.”

Trump admin will directly help Christians in the Middle East rather than use ‘ineffective’ UN programs

The UN is totally anti Christian and overwhelmingly Muslim supportive.

It has been totally useless in what it is supposed to do... make all religions and peoples have equal rights to freedom.

It's totally dysfunctional, however it is the foundation of the coming One World Government.

 

[Douger]

This sounds like a good move in theory, but hard to see how it would work in practice.
I sure hope it's a success.

 

[elliott95]

I think you meant you will know a Christian by their love didn't you?

When Chiang Ka Chek and Mao faced an existential threat to their China from Japan, they were able to come together. There is a comparison being made here.
Now it is the Christians of the ME that face the existential threat. That is what genocide means.
You will know a Christian by their love, yes. That is the Biblical idea, more or less.
So, for those who hate cooperating with Trump more than they love those Christians facing an existential threat, what do we know about their Christianity?

 

[SoldierOfTheKing]

Yes Hank77, I agree there is a genocide.
And Kudos for the Trump administration for doing something. Nobody else in the world is.

Putin played lip service to it, when nobody else was, and that is how he was able to build some inroads with the Christian right.

He provided critical support to the Syrian army in clearing ISIS out of the country. I'd call that more than lip service.

 

[elliott95]

He provided critical support to the Syrian army in clearing ISIS out of the country. I'd call that more than lip service.

Putin is a nationalist thug. Nevertheless, the point I was making is even that thug acted with more integrity and ethics than all the other world leaders combined when it came supporting the Christians of the ME, who are facing genocide.
If people in the West want to look for reasons for the rise of the alt.right and the Russian ties to it, they do not need to look in the past and the KKK and the fascists of bygone era. They need only look at their own indifference to the genocide of Christians and on the assault on Christian values in the West. Putin stood up the the bullies of the post-modernist West, and the people being bullied by that crowd stood up and took notice.
I think that Trump saw that too in Putin, and saw that as an opportunity.

As far as Putin goes, what he supported in Syria was Assad, the war criminal, and their Iranian allies. He did little to stop the rise of ISIS and the continuing genocide against the Chistians and the Yazidi of the region. ISIS was not his primary target. Teh forces that were threatening Assad;s grip in power in the rest of the country not controlled by ISIS was the primary target.
That is not nothing, but what Trump is proposing now might actually help provide Christians of the ME some relief from genocide, if it is not already too late.

 

[Fantine]

When Jesus healed people, he did not ask about their ethnicity, their religious practice, or holiness. He saw the inner dignity and uniqueness of every person. Should we not do the same?

 

[DennisTate]

Christian supporters of Trump are bullied with accusations that they are for the dehumanization of Muslims.

What Christian supporters of Trump are for is ending the dehumanization of the Christians of the ME through genocide, and some attempts at identifying and stopping the Middle East Muslims who are creating this terror against the Christians.
Obama in effect funded the jihadists who dominated the refugee camps which no Christian dared to enter.

Trump listened to what the Evangelicals were telling him instead of listening to the bullies and their shrieks of "Islamophobe!!!" on the issue.

This is good policy that would not have come about with a Clinton in the WH.

Well said.

I totally agree with you!