In a sweeping move, 5,933 organizations will no longer be allowed to receive funding from abroad as they have lost their status.
Newsroom (04/01/2022 08:37, Gaudium Press) Affecting a broad range of charities, from Oxfam India, to the Maia Millia Islamia, and including Mother Teresa’s Missionaries, the Foreign Contribution Regulatory Act has cut off access to foreign funding for nearly a quarter of previously registered charities.
The practical effect of the entry of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act is that of the 22,762 active licenses existing on December 31, 2021, there are now only 16,829, or more than a quarter fewer NGOs that cannot receive foreign aid.
Less money for charity. Absurd.
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That is why the prime minister of West Bengal has responded, and now the head of the Orissa state government, Naven Patnaik, who, in a December 30 ordinance, asks local governments to ensure that Mother Teresa’s sisters’ orphanages and homes for lepers do not have difficulties. “When necessary,” Patnaik said, “resources from the prime minister’s emergency fund can be used.” In Orissa, there are 13 centers of the Missionaries of Charity offering help to about 2,000 people.
From Bhubaneswar, Orissa state, Sr. Stany Rose of the Sisters of Mother Teresa writes:
“We are not worried: God the Father will take care of our needs. We thank the Head of the Government for announcing his support, but most of all we are grateful to the people of Orissa for the care and help they have given us all these years.”
The licenses to access foreign grants have been extended until March 31, except for organizations whose applications have been rejected, such as the Mother Teresa missionaries.
With Infocatolica information.
