The Roman Catholic Church's worldwide charity arm sharply criticized President Donald Trump's cuts to U.S. foreign aid on Monday, saying his plans to end funding for relief agency USAID will have a "catastrophic" impact in the developing world.

Critics say a Trump administration order calls into question the United States’ global standing and reliability.

The Trump administration’s sudden halt on U.S. foreign aid last month caused chaos and confusion inside groups providing a range of assistance to other countries, from providing

ANDREW NATSIOS served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush administration. He is a Professor at the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University and Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs.

J ames Akot has three goats. He shares them with his wife, his mother, three younger siblings, and two of his cousin's children, in a household in Northern Bahr el Ghazal in South Sudan. The crops Akot's family planted were washed away in the floods last year, the fourth and worst flood in the region in four consecutive years.

China has forged nearly two-dozen pacts with African nations in its bid to surpass the U.S. in space. Investments in satellites and infrastructure are winning friends – and giving China more eyes on the skies – as America slashes help for developing countries.

A U.S. foreign aid agency is being stripped down to its bare bones by President Donald Trump’s administration, and the cuts are having a direct impact on Quebec-based organizations.

The attacks on foreign aid come at a time when migrant shelters in Tijuana and other Mexican border cities could see increased need after Trump blocked asylum access at the southern border and aims to remove millions of people from the United States.