Anti-Semitism > Record numbers in 5 of past 6 Years in UK; Ex-PM leads Dutch, Anti-Semitic NGO; DW fires 5, investigates 11 Arabic Reporters

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Anti-Semitic hate crimes spike to record high in Britain

The surge in incidents came after violence erupted between Israel and Palestine in May 2021

10 Feb 2022

An Israel flag is seen during a rally against anti-Semitism.

© Jörg Carstensen / Picture Alliance / Getty Images

The Community Security Trust’s (CST) Antisemitic Incidents Report for 2021 found that anti-Jewish hate crimes hit the highest annual total ever recorded, with a 34% spike in cases.  

On Thursday, the antisemitism monitoring group reported 2,255 incidents, marking the first time it has recorded more than 2,000 cases in a single year. The UK has now seen record annual totals of antisemitic incidents in five of the past six years.

Some of the victims affected by anti-Semitism were targeted in online campaigns that saw “dozens of accounts sending hundreds or even thousands of tweets, images or posts” that were classed as abusive.

With Jewish individuals also being subjected to verbal abuse, hate mail or anti-Semitic graffiti, one report saw people driving through Jewish neighborhoods in vehicles draped with Palestinian flags and singling out Jewish pedestrians for harassment.

CST claimed that the record figure was “driven by the significant spike in anti-Jewish hate reported during and following the escalation in violence in Israel and Gaza” in May 2021. Together, incidents in May and June 2021, directly after the outbreak of conflict between the two regions, accounted for 39% of the annual total.

“When there is a trigger event, it consistently affects the levels of anti-Jewish hate directed at the diaspora Jewish community in the UK,” the charity warned. It cited how over a third of all anti-Semitic incidents in 2021 “alluded or were related to Israel and the Middle East” as evidence for this assertion.

Universities demand staff disclose ties to Jewish, Israeli groups

The demand follows a freedom of information request filed with a dozen of

Dutch universities by a group Jewish media called ‘anti-Israeli’

FILE PHOTO. ©  AP / Peter Dejong

The administrations of about a dozen Dutch universities have reportedly demanded their staff hand over information on their relationships over the past 10 years with a long list of Jewish and Israeli institutions, following a request by a Netherlands-based NGO, the Rights Forum. The news was reported by the Dutch-Jewish media outlet NIW on Thursday. 

The request obtained and cited by the paper asks the academic institutions whether they would share documents and information about their dealings with various Jewish entities, including Israeli universities, institutions, and companies, as well as contacts with “organizations promoting support for the State of Israel,” NIW reported. 

The Rights Forum appeared to be particularly interested in student exchanges the Dutch universities had with Israeli educational institutions, but the list of Jewish organizations of concern did not stop at that. It also included the US-based Anti-Defamation League, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and even the Dutch government’s office of the National Coordinator for Fighting Antisemitism. 

All the collected information, reportedly including email correspondence and contacts, should then be handed over to the Rights Forum, which NIW described as a “pro-Palestinian” and “anti-Israel” group that had been previously “accused of anti-Semitism.” 

The outlet admits that it is unclear if the universities had complied with the request and whether they would do that “in full.” It did say, however, that the directors of “a number of universities” forwarded the request to their employees without prior review by the legal department, arguing that they were “obliged” to do so by the law. Some universities refused to discuss the matter with employees. 

Under a 1991 Dutch law, anyone can submit a freedom of information request to make information on any “administrative matter” public. The law, which is designed to be a means of keeping government policies transparent, applies to the Dutch universities. 

The request sparked an uproar from various Jewish associations in the Netherlands and beyond. “This reeks of antisemitism, but it comes as no surprise to me given this group’s reputation,” Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said. 

“What really concerns me is the number of universities that were so compliant with such a transparently antisemitic request. It reminds us that most mayors cooperated during the occupation to pass on the names of their Jewish citizens to the Germans,” he added. 

The NIW, which broke the news, also called the development “frightening” as it pointed to the fact that organizations “fighting anti-Semitism” were described in the request as involved in the “systematic oppression, discrimination, dispossession and exclusion of Palestinians.” 

There has been no mention of the request on the Rights Forum’s website, nor has the group commented on the reports. It was founded by the former Dutch prime minister, Dries van Agt, back in 2009, and describes itself as a “knowledge center on the Palestine/Israel issue,” which is “committed to a just and sustainable Dutch and European policy with regard to the Palestine/Israel issue.”

It also says that the international community has so far failed to create conditions for a “just peace” and adds that the group seeks to “change that.” 

The Jerusalem Post described van Agt as a controversial figure, who compared Israel to Nazi Germany and argued that Jews should have been given a “piece of land” in Germany and not in Palestine.

Sure, and then the Netherlands would have been up in arms because Israel was on their border. They seem to be completely unaware of the Jewish presence in the Holy Land for thousands of years. And they seem to be unaware that any sign of Palestinian presence in the Holy Land can be traced to the late 19th century.

Germany: Arabic department of taxpayer-funded broadcaster

Deutsche Welle fired for antisemitism

FEB 11, 2022 11:00 AM 

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

Ironically, although former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was an open-borders globalist, she admitted in 2018 that anti-Semitism was “coming to the country from ‘refugees or people of Arab origin.‘” The problem hasn’t subsided.

Germany has welcomed in massive numbers of Muslim migrants and faces the inevitable fallout, as Merkel recognized at least in part. The country also banned Hizballah activity in 2020, designated it a terror organization, and raided mosques. Then last year, Germany banned Hamas flags in response to a rise in antisemitic attacks.

Expect a steady rise of antisemitism in open-door countries, propagated also to the mainstream population by Islamic supremacists in the guise of a pro-Palestinian “resistance” against the state of Israel.

A similar pattern is seen in France, correlated to Muslim migration. In 2020, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) was reported to be “working on a plan to bring hundreds of thousands of French Jews to Israel.” The population of Jews in France is roughly 453,000. According to WZO Vice-Chair Yaakov Hagoel: “Anti-Semitism is increasing and France is surrendering to jihad.” Hagoel continued: “The worsening economic situation, and the growth of radical Islam are creating a one-time opportunity to break down bureaucratic barriers and bring the Jews of France to Israel.”

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“Workers in the Arabic department of the taxpayer-funded Deutsche Welle

have been fired, and there are 11 other individuals still under investigation,” 

by John Cody, 

ReMix News, 

February 8, 2022:

A number of staffers in Deutsche Welle’s Arabic department have been terminated from Germany’s public broadcaster Deutsche Welle after the employees were accused of antisemitism.

Following allegations against its employees, Deutsche Welle (DW) has initiated termination proceedings in five cases, according to DW director Peter Limbourg during a press conference. The broadcaster gave no information about the employees involved. As a result of the allegations, the broadcaster wants to produce a company-wide definition of antisemitism that all employees must know and not violate. The definition would include the recognition of Israel’s right to exist and the rejection of denial and trivialization of the Holocaust, according to a report from Germany’s Tagesschau news outlet.

In the past few weeks, an external investigation initiated by the broadcaster has been underway against some employees of the Arabic editorial team and freelance Deutsche Welle employees abroad. The investigation began as a result of allegations of antisemitism that became public through a piece in the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily at the end of November. The employees were suspended during the audit.

Former Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and the psychologist Ahmad Mansour presented the results of their external examination. They emphasized that it was a case of isolated misconduct, and that structural antisemitism in the Arabic editorial team was not uncovered.

I'm sure there is no possibility that Ahmad Mansour was the least bit biased!

Besides the five separation procedures, Deutsche Welle is investigating 11 other suspected cases, according to Limbourg.

“I and the management are sincerely sorry that we are in this situation. The mere suspicion that there is antisemitism in a German tax-financed institution must be unbearable for Jews in this country and worldwide,” Limbourg emphasized at the beginning of his speech……

MOON of ALABAMA Discloses How Brits Run Secret Anti-Russian Smear Campaigns

While Moon of Alabama has a tendency to be a little progressive, it has come to the conclusion that Deep State is really running the world, running it into the ground as it were. Their reporting is considered to be largely factual, which is more than can be said for some mainstream media.

There is an excellent summary at the bottom of this article for those of you in a hurry.

Patrice de Bergeracpas

DISPATCHES FROM MOON OF ALABAMA, BY “B”

The always reliable Mark F. McCarty, publishing on Medium (see Appendix), introduces this important article thusly (and we agree, of course): Moon of Alabama (the great German journalist Bernhard Horstmann, who does more real journalism every day than the entire US mainstream media combined) has now blown the cover of the “Integrity Initiative” — a project run by The Institute for Statecraft, an NGO funded primarily by the British government, U.S. State Department, and NATO — whose stated purpose is to smear the Russian government at every possible opportunity… We suspected it all along, so this is the just the confirmation. The leopard can never change its spots.

British Government Runs Secret Anti-Russian Smear Campaigns

In 2015 the government of Britain launched a secret operation to insert anti-Russia propaganda into the western media stream.

We have already seen many consequences of this and similar programs which are designed to smear anyone who does not follow the anti-Russian government lines. The ‘Russian collusion’ smear campaign against Donald Trump based on the Steele dossier was also a largely British operation but seems to be part of a different project.

The ‘Integrity Initiative‘ builds ‘cluster’ or contact groups of trusted journalists, military personal, academics and lobbyists within foreign countries. These people get alerts via social media to take action when the British center perceives a need.

On June 7 it took the the Spanish cluster only a few hours to derail the appointment of Perto Banos as the Director of the National Security Department in Spain. The cluster determined that he had a too positive view of Russia and launched a coordinated social media smear campaign (pdf) against him.

The Initiative and its operations were unveiled when someone liberated some of its documents, including its budget applications to the British Foreign Office, and posted them under the ‘Anonymous’ label at cyberguerrilla.org.

The Initiative is nominally run under the (government financed) non-government-organisation The Institute For Statecraft. Its internal handbook (pdf) describes its purpose:

The Integrity Initiative was set up in autumn 2015 by The Institute for Statecraft in cooperation with the Free University of Brussels (VUB) to bring to the attention of politicians, policy-makers, opinion leaders and other interested parties the threat posed by Russia to democratic institutions in the United Kingdom, across Europe and North America.

It lists Bellingcat and the Atlantic Council as “partner organisations” and promises that:

Cluster members will be sent to educational sessions abroad to improve the technical competence of the cluster to deal with disinformation and strengthen bonds in the cluster community. […] (Events with DFR Digital Sherlocks, Bellingcat, EuVsDisinfo, Buzzfeed, Irex, Detector Media, Stopfake, LT MOD Stratcom – add more names and propose cluster participants as you desire).

The Initiatives Orwellian slogan is ‘Defending Democracy Against Disinformation’. It covers European countries, the UK, the U.S. and Canada and seems to want to expand to the Middle East.

On its About page it claims: “We are not a government body but we do work with government departments and agencies who share our aims.” The now published budget plans show that more than 95% of the Initiative’s funding is coming directly from the British government, NATO and the U.S. State Department. All the ‘contact persons’ for creating ‘clusters’ in foreign countries are British embassy officers. It amounts to a foreign influence campaign by the British government that hides behind a ‘civil society’ NGO.

The organisation is led by one Chris N. Donnelly who receives (pdf) £8,100 per month for creating the smear campaign network.

Chris Donnelly – Pic via Euromaidanpress.

Having a load of fun promoting war. 

From its 2017/18 budget application (pdf) we learn how the Initiative works:

To counter Russian disinformation and malign influence in Europe by expanding the knowledge base; harnessing existing expertise, and; establishing a network of networks of experts, opinion formers and policy makers, to educate national audiences in the threat and to help build national capacities to counter it.

The Initiative has a black and white view that is based on a “we are the good ones” illusion. When “we” ‘educate the public’ it is legitimate work. When others do similar, it is disinformation. That is of course not the reality. The Initiative’s  existence itself, created to secretly manipulate the public, is proof that such a view is wrong.

If its work were as legit as it wants to be seen, why would the Foreign Office run it from behind the curtain as an NGO? The Initiative is not the only such operation. It’s applications seek funding from a larger “Russian Language Strategic Communication Programme” run by the Foreign Office.

The 2017/18 budget application sought FCO funding of £480,635. It received £102,000 in co-funding from NATO and the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense. The 2018/19 budget application shows a planned spending (pdf) of £1,961,000.00. The co-sponsors this year are again NATO and the Lithuanian MoD, but also include (pdf) the U.S. State Department with £250,000 and Facebook with £100,000. The budget lays out a strong cooperation with the local military of each country. It notes that NATO is also generous in financing the local clusters.

One of the liberated papers of the Initiative is a talking points memo labeled Top 3 Deliverable for FCO (pdf):

Developing and proving the cluster concept and methodology, setting up clusters in a range of countries with different circumstances

Making people (in Government, think tanks, military, journalists) see the big picture, making people acknowledge that we are under concerted, deliberate hybrid attack by Russia

Increasing the speed of response, mobilising the network to activism in pursuit of the “golden minute”

Under top 1, setting up clusters, a subitem reads:

– Connects media with academia with policy makers with practitioners in a country to impact on policy and society: (Jelena Milic silencing pro-kremlin voices on Serbian TV)

Defending Democracy by silencing certain voices on public TV seems to be a self-contradicting concept.

Another subitem notes how the Initiative secretly influences foreign governments:

We engage only very discreetly with governments, based entirely on trusted personal contacts, specifically to ensure that they do not come to see our work as a problem, and to try to influence them gently, as befits an independent NGO operation like ours, viz;

– Germany, via the Zentrum Liberale Moderne to the Chancellor’s Office and MOD

– Netherlands, via the HCSS to the MOD

– Poland and Romania, at desk level into their MFAs via their NATO Reps

– Spain, via special advisers, into the MOD and PM’s office (NB this may change very soon with the new Government)

– Norway, via personal contacts into the MOD

– HQ NATO, via the Policy Planning Unit into the Sec Gen’s office.

We have latent contacts into other governments which we will activate as needs be as the clusters develop.

A look at the ‘clusters’ set up in U.S. and UK shows some prominent names.

Members of the Atlantic Council, which has a contract to censor Facebook posts, appear on several cluster lists. The UK core cluster also includes some prominent names like tax fraudster William Browder, the daft Atlantic Council shill Ben Nimmo and the neo-conservative Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum. One person of  interest is Andrew Wood who handed the Steele ‘dirty dossier’ to Senator John McCain to smear Donald Trump over alleged relations with Russia. A separate subcluster of so-called journalists names Deborah Haynes, David Aaronovitch of the London Times, Neil Buckley from the FT and Jonathan Marcus of the BBC.

A ‘Cluster Roundup‘ (pdf) from July 2018 details its activities in at least 35 countries. Another file reveals (pdf) the local partnering institutions and individuals involved in the programs.

The Initiatives Guide to Countering Russian Information (pdf) is a rather funny read. It lists the downing of flight MH 17 by a Ukranian BUK missile, the fake chemical incident in Khan Sheikhoun and the Skripal Affair as examples for “Russian disinformation”. But at least two of these events, Khan Sheikun via the UK run White Helmets and the Skripal affair, are evidently products of British intelligence disinformation operations.

The probably most interesting papers of the whole stash is the ‘Project Plan’ laid out at pages 7-40 of the 2018 budget application v2 (pdf). Under ‘Sustainability’ it notes:

The programme is proposed to run until at least March 2019, to ensure that the clusters established in each country have sufficient time to take root, find funding, and demonstrate their effectiveness. FCO funding for Phase 2 will enable the activities to be expanded in scale, reach and scope. As clusters have established themselves, they have begun to access local sources of funding. But this is a slow process and harder in some countries than others. HQ NATO PDD [Public Diplomacy Division] has proved a reliable source of funding for national clusters. The ATA [Atlantic Treaty Association] promises to be the same, giving access to other pots of money within NATO and member nations. Funding from institutional and national governmental sources in the US has been delayed by internal disputes within the US government, but w.e.f. March 2018 that deadlock seems to have been resolved and funding should now flow.The programme has begun to create a critical mass of individuals from a cross society (think tanks, academia, politics, the media, government and the military) whose work is proving to be mutually reinforcing. Creating the network of networks has given each national group local coherence, credibility and reach, as well as good international access. Together, these conditions, plus the growing awareness within governments of the need for this work, should guarantee the continuity of the work under various auspices and in various forms.

The third part of the budget application (pdf) list the various activities, their output and outcome. The budget plan includes a section that describes ‘Risks’ to the initiative. These include hacking of the Initiatives IT as well as:

Adverse publicity generated by Russia or by supporters of Russia in target countries, or by political and interest groups affected by the work of the programme, aimed at discrediting the programme or its participants, or to create political embarrassment.

We hope that this piece contributes to such embarrassment.

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Appendix: Mark F. McCarty’s excellent summary and comment on this important news.

Moon of Alabama Unveils Western Government-Funded Smear Campaign Against Russia

Moon of Alabama (the great German journalist Bernhard Horstmann, who does more real journalism every day than the entire US mainstream media combined) has now blown the cover of the “Integrity Initiative” — a project run by The Institute for Statecraft, an NGO funded primarily by the British government, U.S. State Department, and NATO — whose stated purpose is to smear the Russian government at every possible opportunity:

British Government Runs Secret Anti-Russian Smear Campaigns

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/11/british-government-behind-secret-anti-russian-disinformation-campaign.html

Here are some excerpts:

In 2015 the government of Britain launched a secret operation to insert anti-Russia propaganda into the western media stream.

We have already seen many consequences of this and similar programs which are designed to smear anyone who does not follow the anti-Russian government lines. The ‘Russian collusion’ smear campaign against Donald Trump based on the Steele dossier was also a largely British operation but seems to be part of a different project.

The ‘Integrity Initiative’ builds ‘cluster’ or contact groups of trusted journalists, military personal, academics and lobbyists within foreign countries. These people get alerts via social media to take action when the British center perceives a need.

The Initiative and its operations were unveiled when someone liberated some of its documents, including its budget applications to the British Foreign Office, and posted them under the ‘Anonymous’ label at cyberguerrilla.org.

The Initiative is nominally run under the (government financed) non-government-organisation The Institute For Statecraft. Its internal handbook (pdf) describes its purpose:

The Integrity Initiative was set up in autumn 2015 by The Institute for Statecraft in cooperation with the Free University of Brussels (VUB) to bring to the attention of politicians, policy-makers, opinion leaders and other interested parties the threat posed by Russia to democratic institutions in the United Kingdom, across Europe and North America.

It lists Bellingcat and the Atlantic Council as “partner organisations”….

On its About page it claims: “We are not a government body but we do work with government departments and agencies who share our aims.” The now published budget plans show that more than 95% of the Initiative’s funding is coming directly from the British government, NATO and the U.S. State Department. All the ‘contact persons’ for creating ‘clusters’ in foreign countries are British embassy officers. It amounts to a foreign influence campaign by the British government that hides behind a ‘civil society’ NGO.

“Integrity Initiative” — How could that name be more Orwellian?

But none of this should come as any surprise.

The anti-Russian lies that are being shoved down our throats by the Deep State and its compliant MSM include:

The entire “Russia interfered in the 2016 election” BS — and the pendant “Trump colluded” claims;

The associated claim that Julian Assange is a stooge of the Kremlin;

The idiotic characterization of the profit-seeking activities of the Internet Research Agency as a Russian-government-sponsored effort to either elect Trump or “sow confusion and destroy faith in our democracy”;

The claim that the Russian state was responsible for the Skripals’ poisoning;

The claim that Russia or the Ukrainian Russophile rebels shot down MH-17;

The mis-characterization of the brutal coup in Ukraine in 2014 — in which Ukrainian neo-Nazis shot both protesters and police as a false flag which our MSM blamed on Yanukovich — as a democratic liberation from tyranny and corruption;

The mis-characterization of Crimea’s annexation by Russia as resulting from a Russian invasion — when in fact the Russian troops were already there legally under agreement with Ukraine, and the overwhelmingly Russian-speaking Crimeans demanded to be re-united with Russia in a plebiscite organized by their own elected congress;

The claims that Russia’s ally Assad has repeatedly used poison gas on his own people;

Bill Browder’s outright lies which fomented sanctions against Russia via the Magnitsky Act.

If I were better informed, I’m sure I could list additional calumnies.

Note the prominence given to the Atlantic Council and Bellingcat in the master plan to continuously smear Russia. Bellingcat has played a key role in formulating Rube-Goldberg-style “evidence” that Russia shot down MH-17 and attacked the Skripals, and that Assad’s troops were responsible for multiple gassings in Syria. And note that Crowdstrike, the creator of the lie that Russian intelligence hacked the DNC to provide Wikileaks with its DNC releases, is a close affiliate of the Atlantic Council.

Sadly, even Bernie Sanders buys into many of these blatant smears, because he takes the MSM seriously.

I have no inherent need to exalt Russia. In fact, I have never known a Russian. But what I do know is that this vendetta against Russia is all intended to insure that, to the Western public, Russia remains a boogeyman necessitating limitless expenditures on arms and armies, so that NATO and the MIC can continue to bleed us dry while our own needs at home go unmet. And all the while putting the planet under threat of nuclear annihilation in the event of an accident or a military confrontation that gets out of hand.

In a just world, everyone involved in this would be convicted of Incitement to War, and put away for life.

Indian Government Forcing Children's Aide NGO Out

India becoming more and more hostile to Christians

Compassion Has 'Very Little Hope' for India,

Sets Deadline to Shut Down Sponsorships

About 145,000 children have already lost its assistance

with food, education, and health care

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra 

Compassion Has 'Very Little Hope' for India, Sets Deadline to Shut Down Sponsorships Compassion International

“We want to be honest with you, there is very little hope.”

So wrote Compassion International to its 130,000 sponsors of Indian children this past Friday.

One week after sharing the good news of four nations no longer needing child sponsors due to the passion of millennials, the ministry shared the bad news of another nation that will probably not need child sponsors due to government interference.

A little more than a year after the Indian government told Compassion that it could no longer receive funding from outside the subcontinent, the humanitarian organization will likely be closing its last operations there.

“Since we can no longer distribute funds to our field offices, we have just had to notify our India country staff that we must formally close our field offices in India by March 15,” Compassion told sponsors by email. “Should nothing change, that means an end to our sponsorship program in India in the next 60 days.”

Compassion, which has been working in India for more than 48 years, said it has tried everything in the last 10 months to stay afloat. The email listed its efforts, which include:

Seeking the advice of legal experts in both the US and India

Leveraging influential relationships, including US representatives and senators, the former US Secretary of State, the former and current ambassadors to India and the White House Office of Faith-based Affairs, as well as members of Parliament in the United Kingdom

Asking Compassion sponsors to pray and to write Congress (more than 35,000 letters were sent)

Testifying in front of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee

Leveraging personal relationships within the US and India

Compassion’s 580 Indian-staffed development centers care for more than 145,000 children. That’s only about 8 percent of the 1.9 million children assisted by Compassion worldwide, but also more than any other of the 25 countries where it works.

The Indian government objects to Compassion’s Christianity, according to the ministry’s testimony to US lawmakers. Hindu nationalists have put increasing pressure on Christians in India since the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014. The subcontinent has been steadily moving up Open Doors’ list of places where it’s hardest to be a Christian, from No. 28 in 2014 to No. 15 this year, the highest rank it has ever held.

Hostile acts against Christians

“An average of 40 incidents were reported per month, including pastors beaten, churches burned and Christians harassed,” stated Open Doors. “Of the 64 million Christians in India, approximately 39 million experience direct persecution.”

There doesn’t appear to be a government plan to pick up Compassion’s care for Indian children. More than 1 in 3 of India’s 1.2 billion people are children, yet India spends less on health and education than comparable emerging economies.

Of India’s roughly 472 million children, 33 million are child laborers, 80 million are out of school, and 97 million are undernourished, according to a recent petition asking Modi’s administration to spend more on children.

But while the government may not have a plan in place, that doesn’t mean the children will be abandoned entirely, said Compassion spokesperson Becca Bishop.

“[The children] may have lost Compassion’s support, but they haven’t lost the support of their local church,” she said. “Those churches, if they have the funds, may still be able to carry out a lot of the services.”

World Vision, which sponsors more than 245,000 children in India (about 6 percent of its global total), also partners with local churches, though not exclusively, spokesperson Amy Parodi told CT. So far, World Vision isn’t having problems getting foreign funding into the country, she said.

CT covered Compassion’s cash crunch in December, including how the Indian government squeezed off its foreign funding. With no way to pay for materials or staff, the organization began paring down programs last summer.

“Our staff in the India field offices have stretched every last penny beyond what we thought possible to extend the programs for our children, while we in parallel explored alternative delivery methods to provide funds, yet a solution has not been discovered within the needed timeframe,” stated Compassion’s email to donors.

The news comes on the heels of Compassion’s largest surge of sponsorships, when students attending the 2017 Passion Conference eliminated the list of children waiting for sponsors in four countries.