Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the international charity founded by the US bishops’ conference, has engaged in “promoting condoms and contraception as well as implementing health referral networks that included abortion” in Africa, according to a study conducted jointly by the Lepanto Institute and Population Research Institute.
At a March 6 press conference, the two groups offered a 120-page report, based on documents obtained from the federal government, showing the involvement of CRS in US aid programs in Cameroon, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. The partnerships with government programs, the report concludes, “requires CRS to make grave moral compromises, not to say completely abandon its Catholic identity, in favor of a pose as a secular NGO.”