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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the participants in the 55^th General Chapter of the Order of Augustinian Recollects on Thursday in the Vatican.

The Augustinian Recollects trace their origins to a 1588 reform of the Augustinian Friars in Spain, and became an autonomous congregation in 1621. It was only in the early 20^th century, however, that they received full recognition as a Mendicant Order under the Rule of St. Augustine – and they have the distinction of being the last Order to receive such recognition from the Holy See.

In Spanish-language remarks prepared for the occasion and delivered on Thursday morning in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis encouraged the Recollects to continue in their ongoing work of renewing the vision of St. Augustine, “[T]o live as brothers ‘with one heart and one soul (Rule 1, 2),’ reflecting the ideal of the first Christians and being a living spirit of prophecy and communion in this world of ours, that there might be neither division nor conflict nor exclusion, but that harmony might reign[.]”

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The General Chapter of the Augustinian Recollects is the supreme authority within the Order. It takes place every six years and it examines the status of the institution. The Prior General and his counsellors are also elected in it, and these then prepare a plan to put into operation the decisions taken by the members of the Chapter over the subsequent six years.
 

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The Society of Jesus, founded in 1540 by Spaniard St. Ignatius of Loyola and his companions, is the largest men’s religious congregation in the Catholic Church, with almost 17.000 Jesuit priests and brothers working in some 112 nations across the globe.   Jesuits have been engaged in ministries as diverse as spiritual direction, education, the care of refugees, outreach to the homeless, theological, philosophical and academic enquiry.  With its worldwide headquarters here in Rome, Jesuit communities and apostolic works are organized into 'provinces' which belong to one of ten 'assistancies' around the world.  One such province, the Near East  Province, based in Beirut, Lebanon, comprises the Jesuit missions in the eastern and southern rim of the Mediterranean Sea, involving 106 Jesuits from 15 different nations.  One among them is Indian Jesuit, Fr. Bimal Kerketta of Ranchi Province who has been working in Egypt since 2002.   In an interview with him we came to know a lot about the work of the Jesuits in the predominantly Muslim nation.  Today, he begins the first part of this interview explaining the countries of the Near East  Jesuit Province.

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(Vatican Radio) Nearly three weeks on from Pope Francis’ visit to the Republic of Georgia, the country’s ambassador to the Holy See says the trip marked an important step on the path towards closer Western integration.

In an interview looking back at the fruits of the papal visit, Ambassador Tamara Grdzelidze also underlines the significant economic growth her country has seen since the end of the Soviet regime 25 years ago.

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Ambassador Tamara says the visit of Pope Francis was one of the “brightest moments in our recent history”, adding that the Pope was very well received by the Georgian people.

She recalls that Catholics make up just 1% in a population of only 3.7 million people, most of whom belong to the Orthodox Church.

The ambassador also notes that the former Soviet republic is “clearly looking to Europe, to the west and wants to be a part of those western values and western principles that countries in Europe and North America have”.

From this political point of view, as well as from a pastoral perspective, she says, “the Pope’s visit was very important”, as the country’s prime minister emphasized in an interview the day before parliamentary elections in Georgia on October 8th.

Ambassasor Grdzelidze recalls that Georgia for 100 years was annexed by the Russian empire and then enjoyed just two years of independence, before being taken over by the Soviet regime. While there was a “total collapse” of the economy and high unemployment at the end of the Soviet period, she says, the poverty line in Georgia has now dropped from just over 42% in 2012 to 32% in 2014. There has also been a reduction in unemployment and an increase in GDP, she says.

The ambassador also praises the work of Caritas in helping the poorest families in Georgia, which often include former teachers from the Soviet era who have been unable to adjust to the new economic situation.

Today, she says, the Georgian economy is able to count on significant investments for the development of bigger businesses, while small businesses are supported by the government and by international funds.”

Agriculture is “our very strong point”, the ambassador says, noting that Georgia now  sends some products to the European market.

Another importance source of income is from tourism, she says, noting that from January to September 2016 Georgia welcomed some 4.879.000 visitors who come for the “good food, good wine and sightseeing”. “Tourism is a good source of income for Georgia now and especially in the future,” she says.

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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis sent a telegram on Thursday to the Archbishop of Bari, Francesco Cacucci, where a conference organized in the Italian port city of Bari on the lives of women in the Middle East and the Mediterranean is taking place.

Signed by the Cardinal-Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, the message says, “[The Holy Father] hopes that the spaces of representation of women will broaden and that they might intensify their work in seeking opportunities for interaction, knowledge and dialogue, and that the shared commitment to building a future of prosperity and peace, might produce abundant fruits of human and social growth and encourages reconciliation among men and renewed harmony among nations.”

The second of its kind with women of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, the conference is focusing on the theme,  on the theme: Women for Peace – being workers for a culture of encounter and dialogue. The event is being promoted by the International Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations along with the International Forum of Catholic Action, and Catholic Action Italy, in the context of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.

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(Vatican Radio) The Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences is hosting a two-day event, to explore ways and means to help people on the margins of society, while recognizing their dignity and making them genuine partners in pursuit of the common good. Inclusive Solidarity and Integration of Marginalized People is the theme of the workshop on the 28^th-29^th October, 2016. Read more below

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Inclusive Solidarity and Integration of Marginalized People
Workshop 28-29 October 2016

The squalor that comes from many tragic events and cases of destitution leads us to consider carefully the notion of “social inclusion” and to identify it with the litmus test of the seriousness of our declarations. To include means sharing, participating, moving from being a stranger and misfit to be an integrated and active person, from a subject to a sovereign citizen. Above all, inclusion means, today, to consider that in the last decades there has been a sharp growth in the number of people that have been “expelled” from the productive sphere in much of the world. These are the “surplus people” to be warehoused, displaced, trafficked, reduced to mere labouring bodies and body-organs.

The term “inclusion” expresses the common thread that binds all the reflections of Pope Francis on CST and allows us to design a bridge that connects the social teaching of the last three Popes. Social inclusion can take place only on the grounds of the formal recognition of equal opportunities to participate in the strategic decisional and operative moments that make a social aggregate an active civil society, polyarchical and solidarious. It is time “to break the chains of poverty”, that forest of impediments whose nature is political, social, economic and cultural.

Nobody would campaign on a manifest to increase poverty. Yet, while the very word “poverty” demands policies to reduce it, taking the UN’s definition of extreme poverty (an income of 1.25 dollars per day), over 20 percent of the world’s population remain poor (World Bank, 2013). Another 40 percent make do with incomes that do not exceed USD 2 per day while, even in the EU, 120 million people are officially recognized to be at risk of social exclusion (Eurostat, 2013).

A part of the problem of why poverty has proved to be such an intractable issue is that experts cannot agree on definitions. Differences over measurement reflect and fuel confusion over what it means to be excluded. Even more important, there is little agreement as to whether poverty is largely caused by structural factors (poor fundamentals, be they poor institutions and endowments or low skills and abilities at the individual level) or by personal failings,  (i.e. lack of effort on the part of people), or by poverty trap, understood as self–reinforcing mechanisms whereby poor individuals or countries remain poor. This leads to disagreement about how best to tackle the problem. Poverty and destitution are never neutral. They are a product of cultural habits, social structures, economic institutions, politics and invariably divides opinions.

This workshop takes all this as common knowledge. Indeed, several comprehensive analyses and critiques of global poverty are available and there is no reason to replicate them in this occasion. Instead, the workshop aims at twin tasks. On the one hand, to understand why, despite the rapid economic growth achieved globally over the last quarter century and the many initiatives prompted by the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, the outcomes have been so meagre. On the other hand, the workshop takes as its lighthouse the “how question”: how to implement a feasible strategy, also at the grass-root level, in order to eradicate exclusion. In other words, the focus will be on therapy, rather than on diagnostics.

Pope Francis explicitly recognizes the great contributions by entrepreneurship and innovative finance to human development over the centuries. The world’s economic leaders “have demonstrated their aptitude for being innovative and for improving the lives of many people by their ingenuity and professional expertise” (July 2014). The challenge today is how the economy can extend the benefits and reverse the gaping inequalities and worsening exclusions. Catholic Social Teaching (CST) does not fight at all a market-based economy provided it is oriented toward the common good – not merely the total good –, where the free market develops with inclusivity, stability, transparency. What CST demands is to reform the market social order against some of its ills.

Articulation of the theme

a.     Since performance indicators of an economy have an impact upon the modes of performing, which proposals should be advanced to change the way the goodness of an economy is measured? In particular, what can be said about the Better Life Index released by OECD for the first time in May 2011? Or the Pew Research Center’s Life Satisfaction Index; or the Social Progress Index; or the UNDP Human Development Index? Which improvements can be proposed?

b.     Given that it is impossible for marginalized people to engage in public reasoning processes without being nurtured by certain webs of relations which first recognize them as persons, what can be done, at the grass-root level, to revert processes of urban segregation and exclusion? It is a fact that the usual approach of international agencies is to build adequate governance structures. While this remains indispensable, it should not be the only focus. While rushing to create multi-party parliamentary systems, independent judiciaries, free press, etc. one should not forget the bottom-up way. Even with the best of governance and a visionary leadership, if there is no inclusive development allowing people to cooperate among themselves, those institutions will never function properly. What should be done in this respect?

c.     The social economy has been reinvigorated in recent decades. Yet it has enormous, untapped potentials to be put to work. Which strategies are needed to provide the institutional and practical support which social economy organizations require if they are to be able to face the inclusion challenge? The experience of social businesses demonstrates that people can be active in creating their own work and enterprises. An economic system is like a natural environment. It requires diversity to strengthen its resilience. It follows that the many different organizational forms (cooperatives; B-corporations; for profit corporations; social businesses; ethical banks; social agriculture, etc.) should be sustained. They contribute to the generation of social capital, as well as economic value. Which proposals can be advanced to avoid that inadequate regulation might harm this biodiversity by favouring the “one-size-fits-all” thesis?

d.     It is well accepted that one of the most effective route towards inclusive solidarity is the promotion of decent work for all workers in all sectors of the economy, including the informal economy. In 1999, ILO proposed to include the Decent Work Agenda within the post-2015 Development Agenda. Not much has been done so far. So, what should be done in this regard? In 2016, ILO will start a round of discussions about the Decent Work in Global Supply Chains (GSCs). What has to be the role of multinationals in this regard? Are the “Ruggie Principles” strong enough to guarantee the promotion of decent work in GSCs? How to adjust the international labour standards to take into consideration the specificities of the various geographical areas, avoiding the risk of using the concept of decent work as a tool to encourage excessive protectionist policies? Which actions policy-makers should take in order to promote access to decent jobs to all segments of society and to promote access to education for skills?

e.     Even during high growth, the economy often becomes exclusive leading to inequality and considerable wastage of social assets. The challenge is to identify and promote complementary economic models, innovative infrastructures, collaborative spaces that match otherwise wasted assets with social and economic needs. How to make these new sharing models both financially viable and operationally inclusive? In particular, how to cope with the sharp increase in land-acquisition by foreign firms and foreign government agencies.

f.      It has been empirically confirmed that Schumpeterian creative destruction generates a double effect on subjective well-being: a negative force through the higher risk of displacement (e.g. consider the impact of intelligent robots on job elimination) and a positive force through higher growth expectations. Is there a viable strategy to pursue so that the positive effect outweighs the negative one? Evidence suggests that specific and new welfare policies offer an important contribution to this end; in particular with regard to NEET youngsters. How should we conceptualize an up-dating of the traditional welfare state in the direction of a new relational welfare system where expressions such as social governance by networking, co-production, circular subsidiarity, social innovation and the like can find their proper expressive way?

g.      In recent times, financial global development has been accompanied by amplified economic volatility. Due to the heavy public cost of the bail-out processes, the financial sector is undergoing profound change, both through added regulation and through internally promoted reform. The call to give this reform a human and ethical perspective also involve the idea of inclusive finance, i.e. finance that helps fight exclusion. Which actions should be implemented to this end? Should one be satisfied with the multilateral work led by the OECD/G20 on the Automatic Exchange of Tax Information and Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) and in confronting the “too big to fail” problem in the international banking system?

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Caritas Philippines, the social action arm of the Catholic Church, is looking into the extent of the damage brought about by Super Typhoon Haima, which continues to batter parts of the country on Oct. 20.

"We are trying to determine where help is most needed and what type of relief are we going to give to affected communities," said Father Edwin Gariguez, head of Caritas Philippines.

The priest said the church's social action teams were already deployed to areas hit by the typhoon. "We are using drones to see the whole area," he told ucanews.com.

Father Gariguez appealed to the public to continue sending in donations especially in areas most affected by the super typhoon.

"We need medicines, food, clothing, equipment, and even prayers," said the priest. "We need all those," he said.

The social action arm of the country's Catholic bishops has earlier "prepositioned" relief goods in areas where Super Typhoon Haima was expected to hit.

Father Gariguez expressed confidence that parishes and dioceses in affected areas will be able to respond to the need of the people.

"We have done a lot already in terms of disaster preparedness and response," said Father Gariguez, adding that they have learned a lot from Super Typhoon Haiyan that hit the central Philippines in 2013.

Typhoon Haiyan, which killed at least 6,000 people, was the world’s strongest recorded cyclone.

Northern provinces hit

At least seven people were reported killed at the height of the onslaught of Typhoon Haima in the northern part of the country.

As of late in the afternoon of Oct. 20, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council was still awaiting reports from the provinces on the extent of the damage caused by the typhoon.

Romina Marasigan, the council's spokeswoman, said severe infrastructural damage and disruption of power and communication supplies were reported in at least two provinces.

"Many infrastructures were damaged due to the strong winds ... roofs were blown away," she said, adding that even the roof of the headquarters of the Office of Civil Defense in the province of Cagayan Valley was damaged.

"It’s a challenge for our regional offices to send reports," said Marasigan. "Many electric posts and trees have fallen," she added.

In its initial report, the agency has accounted for some 90,589 people who were evacuated from their homes before the typhoon, which brought sustained winds of up to 225km/h, made landfall on Oct. 19.

The Philippines endures around 20 major storms every year, many of them deadly.

(Source: UCANews)

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(Vatican Radio)  Based in Aleppo, Syrian Jesuit priest, Father Ziad Hilal speaks about the catastrophic situation in the fiercely-contested city and appeals to the international community to “stop giving weapons” to the Syrian combatants.  

Father Hilal has been helping the children in war-torn Syria since the beginning of the conflict, first in Homs and currently in Aleppo. He was one of the main promoters of an initiative this month that saw more than a million children worldwide and thousands in Syria itself, draw or sign petitions asking for peace and an end to the Syrian conflict. They included both Christian and Muslim children from across Syria. Father Hilal was interviewed by Father Leszek Gesiak, head of Vatican Radio’s Polish Service.

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Father Hilal spoke about the privations of daily life in Aleppo under the shelling and bombing with the frequent interruptions to electricity and the water supply, saying “we have to stop this war.”  He described the situation in the divided city as “catastrophic”, especially for the children living there.  

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Washington D.C., Oct 20, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA).- A reputed “Catholic Spring” group played a key role in influencing Barack Obama’s controversial 2009 Notre Dame speech, and its campaigns “broadened the agenda” of Catholic voters to see abortion as just one of several election issues.

This is according to a leaked memo attributed to George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

The group, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, was founded in 2005. While early backing from billionaire financier George Soros’ philanthropic network was previously reported, a 2009 memo leaked earlier this year seems to provide the foundations’ view of the group’s early activities.

“CACG has helped to transform Catholic values in the mainstream media and in the public discourse on religion and politics, thereby thwarting previously successful attempts by the conservative movement to use religious faith for partisan advantage,” said the memo.

The memo, dated Sept. 22, 2009, is attributed to the Open Society Foundations’ U.S. Programs’ Democracy and Power Fund. The memo, apparently a series of grant proposals, was posted to the website DCLeaks.com.

According to the memo, Catholics in Alliance played “pivotal roles” in 2009 during “critical Catholic moments” like President Barack Obama’s 2009 Notre Dame commencement speech.  

President Obama’s controversial speech at the University of Notre Dame included the bestowal of an honorary degree on the new president. The action had drawn criticism from dozens of bishops who said it caused scandal and confusion. The bishops cited U.S. bishops’ 2004 document “Catholics in Political Life,” which said that Catholic institutions should not honor those who “act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.”

Bishop John D’Arcy, who at the time headed the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, objected that the university in his diocese honored someone “whose activities both as president and previously, have been altogether supportive of laws against the dignity of the human person yet to be born.”

The Open Society Foundations memo praised Catholics in Alliance for “reframing” the abortion debate in terms of reducing abortions.

“Indeed, this reframing is where the group has showed some of its most successful policy influence within the new Obama administration: the President made this reframing the centerpiece of his much anticipated Notre Dame speech,” the memo said.

The memo lists Catholics In Alliance for the Common Good under the section “grassroots organizing and civic engagement.” It indicates the group received at least $450,000 in financial support from the massive George Soros philanthropy network from 2006-2010, when the foundations also operated under the name Open Society Institute (OSI).

The group is currently in the public eye because the site Wikileaks has posted alleged 2012 emails involving Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, who appears to state that Catholics in Alliance was founded to aid a “Catholic Spring” political revolution within the Church.

Christopher Hale, who became Catholics in Alliance’s executive director in late 2013, distanced himself from accusations he and his colleagues aimed to split the Church.

“We don’t concern ourselves with the internal politics of the Catholic Church,” Hale told CNA Oct. 17.

“I think that it’s important to distinguish the work of organizations from those who funded it or used to fund it,” he added. “No organization funders agree 100 percent with its activity.”

Catholics in Alliance has become more critical of powerful abortion groups in recent years

“I want to state categorically that we are pro-life. If anyone has doubts about that commitment, ask Planned Parenthood,” Hale said.

The group broke with many political progressives by criticizing Planned Parenthood following the release of investigative videos appearing to show the abortion provider breaking laws in selling harvested fetal tissue and body parts from aborted unborn babies.

According to the 2009 Open Society Foundations memo, Catholics in Alliance drew criticisms from pro-abortion rights groups like Catholics for Choice for its efforts to “play down abortion rights and reframe the debate in terms of reducing the number of abortions.”

“We believe that CACG’s reframing may actually be one of its strengths,” said the memo.

The Soros network typically supports abortion rights. The memo added: “We will continue to monitor this issue, but at this time feel that CACG’s position on choice is not at odds with OSI priorities.”

Catholics in Alliance’s politics-related actions also drew praise from the grantmaker.

“Unlike in 2004, CACG and the progressive faith community in 2008 provided a consistent counterpoint to the religious right-wing’s message in key media stories,” the memo said. “Importantly, CACG broadened the agenda of Catholic voters.”

Hale discussed Catholics in Alliance’s current view of the abortion debate.

“Catholics should definitely consider abortion as central component of the social teaching of the Catholic Church. But it is fair to say that it’s not the only issue,” Hale told CNA. “While abortion is very important to Catholic conscience, it can’t be the only issue,” he said.

“We’re proudly pro-life. That means more than pro-birth.”

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good has spoken up about a wide variety of political issues, criticizing the parties and platforms on both sides of the aisle. However, it has drawn criticism for its general avoidance of criticizing Hillary Clinton by name, while it has criticized Donald Trump on numerous occasions.

The Open Society Foundations’ memo said the group filled an important vacuum by “providing a progressive voice for Catholics.” It claimed that the group’s outreach to Catholic voters in 2006 and 2008 resulted in a situation where the Catholic population believed that “abortion is not the overriding issue at the ballot box” but took into account the moral questions of the economy, health care, fair wages and a just immigration policy.

The memo claimed proof of the group’s success in post-2008 election poll results. It highlighted the large majorities of Evangelical and Catholic voters who told pollsters people of faith “should focus on all issues that are central to their values, rather than focusing on one or two issues.” As evidence the memo also listed poll results showing voters made the economy, Iraq, health care, and terrorism their top issues, while only 14 percent named abortion and 6 percent same-sex “marriage.”

Catholics in Alliance also drew praise for its use of “robust media, grassroots, and collaborative strategies” to educate and mobilize “voters of faith in support of social justice.” The memo said the group had gained attention through circulating local letters, producing radio ads, websites and op-eds, booking commentators on cable television, and in major news coverage

The memo said another critical Catholic moment the group influenced in 2009 was the release of Pope Benedict XVI’s 2009 encyclical “Caritas in Veritate,” but it did not specify any reasons for this claim.

The foundation memo said Catholics in Alliance fits into a broader strategy “to inspire greater public participation from mainstream and social justice oriented faith communities” on Open Society priority issues and also to “counter the outsize influence and impact of right-wing religious constituencies.”

Catholics in Alliance was mentioned in a recently leaked February 2012 e-mail exchange between Hillary Clinton’s present campaign manager, John Podesta, and Sandy Newman, president of the progressive organization Voices for Progress. They discussed the controversy over a federal rule requiring Catholic organizations to cover contraception.

Newman discussed the possibilities of a “Catholic Spring,” similar to Arab protests, to lead Catholics to demand “the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.” Newman wondered how one would plant “the seeds of revolution.”

Podesta responded by saying, “We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this.” At the same time, Podesta suggested it lacked the leadership to do so. He suggested former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend be involved.

Newman replied to Podesta: “Great. I suppose it's conceivable that a few organizers could spark a high-profile demonstration or two (a la Occupy [Wall Street]) that might turn out to be the spark. But it is indeed a puzzle to figure out why some events, usually with very little planning, ignite a movement no one would have predicted, while other, far better planned things fashioned by experienced organizers don’t.”

As of 2009, Catholics in Alliance organized local Catholic activists to promote public policy. It followed a media organizing strategy to promote the voices of religious leaders, and conducted “strategic coordination and support of the Catholic social justice movement,” the memo said.

The memo praised Catholics in Alliance’s role in immigration reform and in states affected by immigration raids. According to the memo, the group planned to offer media training and leadership training for Latino faith leaders, including the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians, with a focus on immigration reform.

The memo named Catholics United as the group’s 501c4 sister organization. It claimed both groups had a combined membership of 60,000 and fundraising totals above $3 million as of 2009.

The memo also included a critical evaluation of Catholics in Alliance as an organization. It faulted the group for its alleged failure to incorporate and employ Latino Catholics, given demographic trends in Catholicism. The memo said the group was working to improve minority representation among Hispanics and people of color in its board of directors, its advisory council and its speakers’ bureau.

It said the departure of the group’s co-founder Alexia Kelley to join the Obama White House in 2009 left the group “without strong leadership.” Another co-founder, Tom Perriello, is mentioned in other documents in the Soros leak.

Another Soros foundations grantee, Faith in Public Life, is discussed in the 2009 memo for its role in media messaging on the University of Notre Dame controversy, stem cell guidelines, conscience protections for medical professionals, as well as issues like health care reform, climate change and immigration. Faith in Public Life is described as a partner organization for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.

The same document from the Soros foundations recommends a nearly $1.4 million grant to Podesta’s Center for American Progress and indicates previous Open Society Institute support for the center totaling nearly $5 million. It describes the Center for American Progress as “the most influential think tank in our funding universe.”

According to the memo, there is major foundation support for the center from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Humanity United Fund, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, among others.

Other more recent documents leaked from the Soros foundations indicate the grantmaker aims to change Ireland’s pro-life laws against abortion as a model for Catholic countries. The grantmaker also took part in a $7-8 million dollar effort to respond to 2015 media reports appearing to show the abortion giant Planned Parenthood was involved in the illegal sale of fetal tissue and organs.

The Open Society Foundations did not respond to a request for comment on the document. It has previously said a number of internal documents were removed from “an online community that served as a resource for our staff, board members, and partners across the world.” It charged that the publication of documents was an apparent symptom of “an aggressive crackdown on civil society and human rights activists that is taking place globally.”

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