(10 Feb 2025)
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Vatican City – 9 February 2025
1. Wide of St. Peter’s Square
2. Mid of the dome of St Peter’s Basilica
3. Mid of visitors’ feet walking in the square
4. Wide of Cardinal Michael Czerney
5. Close up of the cardinal’s wooden cross necklace
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Cardinal Michael Czerny, Head of the Vatican Development and Migrants Office:
“Since you use the word crackdown, I mean, that’s exactly it. A crackdown is a terrible way to administer affairs and much less to administer justice. And so, I’m very sorry that many people are being hurt and indeed terrorized by the measures. And I can only hope that the church in each place is able to help them, and if possible, even protect them. That’s all we can hope for, is that the people, God’s people and other people of goodwill, will help and protect vulnerable people who are suddenly made much more vulnerable.”
7. Close-up of Cardinal Czerney’s face
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Cardinal Michael Czerny, Head of the Vatican Development and Migrants Office:
“Well certainly, the cuts are a matter for real concern because there are programs underway and expectations and we might even say commitments and to break commitments is a serious thing. So while every government is qualified to review its budget, in the case of foreign aid, it would be good to have some warning because it takes time to find other sources of funding or to find other ways of meeting the problems.”
9. Close-up of hand of the cardinal holding the necklace
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Cardinal Michael Czerny, Head of the Vatican Development and Migrants Office:
“What the church teaches is very well summed up by Pope Francis, who says that our obligation, not only as Christians but as human beings, is to welcome people, to protect them, to promote them and to integrate them. This is the program that should be foremost in everyone’s mind. That’s what we would expect if we were in need. That’s what anybody, not just migrants but anybody who’s excluded or marginated needs: to be welcomed, to be protected, to be promoted and to be integrated. There’s every reason for us to do this and Pope Francis makes it clear that we are expected to do this up to the limits of our capacity. And I don’t think that is any country, except perhaps Lebanon and maybe one or two other exceptions, who are really over the limit. So I think it’s incumbent on us and it’s incumbent on us first of all as human beings, as citizens, as believers, and in our case, as Christians.”
11. Tilt up from necklace with wooden cross to cardinal’s face
12. Various of people in St. Peter’s Square
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis’ point-man on migration and development has urged the Trump administration to remember Christian principles about caring for others.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Czech-born Canadian Jesuit, said people are being “terrorized” by the U.S. crackdown on migrants and vital Catholic-run aid programs are being put in jeopardy over the planned gutting of USAID.
Czerny heads the Vatican office responsible for migrants, the environment, the church’s Caritas Internationalis charity and development.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Czerny said every incoming government can review its foreign aid budget, and even reform an aid agency like USAID.
But he said it’s another thing to break the program entirely after funding commitments have been made.
"There are programs underway and expectations and we might even say commitments, and to break commitments is a serious thing,” Czerny said.
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