LGBT Empire Spreads But Grassroots Pro-Lifers Take Charge ｜ Jason Jones
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Jason Jones, founder of the Vulnerable People Project, joins us in front of the White House to talk about what it means to be a soldier, and what that means to fight for our country. Jason Jones is a famous character, not only at Layside News, but everywhere else. You might know him from movie to movement. You remember Bella, though, I want to talk to him about his being a soldier fighting for this very nation where we stand right now, and how that means today.
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I'm not going to grab somebody who's fleeing extremist ideology and then like a fireman as
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he's trying to save somebody say, you know, can you say the Nicene Creed for me before I carry
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you out of this burning building? We don't do that. But the State Department does that.
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USAID does that. Before we are going to give you aid, you must accept this radical ideology that
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is totally alien to your culture. It's alien to our culture. It's alien to every culture,
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but especially in like Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East.
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On this episode of the John Hunter Weston Show, it's going to be lots of fun. We're doing it,
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as you can see right here in front of the White House, with someone who I'm sure you all know.
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Jason Jones is a famous character, not only at Layside News, but everywhere else. He runs the
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Vulnerable People Project. You might know him from movie to movement. You remember Bella.
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I want to talk to him, though, about his being a soldier fighting for this very nation where we
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stand right now and what that means today. Stay tuned for this episode of the John Hunter Weston Show.
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John Henry, it's good. It's been a long time. I haven't seen you since the China virus. Can I say
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Yeah, you can. We're not on YouTube. You can say anything you want.
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So let's begin as we always do. Let's say the cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
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and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. It's so great to do that right in front of this. That's just amazing.
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So Jason, you fought for this country as a soldier. You risked your life. You put your
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life on the line for America. And yet in America today, we're living in the land that seems to be
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very far from a land of the free and the home of the brave, especially under President Biden.
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Yeah, well, you know, first of all, John Henry, I had the privilege of serving as United States Army
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infantryman. My father was an infantryman, as was my grandfather. But the real, to me,
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that's a privilege to serve. But the sacrifice that I really made was my son served. And he fought
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in Syria, and he fought in Iraq against ISIS. And so when you see today that our recruitment
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numbers are plummeting, that the world is collapsing into catastrophe from Nigeria to Ukraine to, of
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course, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen. The world is really unraveling. The Army and the Navy and the Air Force
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are not meeting their recruitment goals. And then the Navy's plan, I don't know if you've heard this,
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their plan to meet their recruitment goals is to hire a transgender or have a transgender sailor become
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the face of Navy recruitment. And I say that America is still the city on the hill. Unfortunately, we've
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turned the lights off. And the world has become a very dark place. And then what makes matters even more
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sorrowful is that the rainbow flag has become really a flag of imperialism, of colonialism,
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of disrupting and undermining traditional cultures around the world, cultures that are already falling
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apart, countries that are already suffering famine and violence. Then the United States shows up flying
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this rainbow flag. Then you have companies like BlackRock that are profiting off of war,
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sort of like the English East Indies company. And so we see today sorrowfully that we are on sort of a
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reprobate crusade into a dark and unraveling world. And then at home, it's unraveling too. So, you know,
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LifeSite viewers are, and subscribers, they are suffering themselves. We have fentanyl pouring into our
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communities. Almost every family in America has been touched by a fentanyl death. The mental health crisis in
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this country in the wake of COVID policy that brutalized the nation. Our inner cities across
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the country are really in collapse. So it is really quite a sorrowful thing. But the darker the world
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becomes, the further our light will shine. And really, what will save the world, what will save our
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country is the gospel of Jesus Christ. I just had the privilege of speaking to a university in Nevada.
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And someone asked me, well, how do I order my life? It seems like your life is very much ordered. I
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said, I was privileged to be able to say this at a secular university. They asked the question.
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I said, I know my mission statement. It's to love God and love my neighbor. It's my mission statement.
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It's very simple. Once you know, now I don't live up to it, especially if you cut me off in traffic.
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You can, didn't I just see him say, love God and love your neighbor? You know, it's hard,
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but we know what our mission statement is. And so we are paramedics in a society that's in triage.
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And so all Christians, all of us right now are called to get on our knees and tend to the broken
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It is something that America has such a reputation for freedom. We've seen it crushed, particularly
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over the last little while. Do you know, until May 11th, non-vax, non-Americans couldn't even get
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into the country. It was one of the last countries on earth with that restriction, other than China
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and things like that. But that was stunning for much of the world. Now, I think many Americans didn't
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even know that was the reality, but it was nonetheless the reality. And that which you just said about
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colonialism based on the LGBT agenda. I'm ignorant of a lot of history, but that's just so stunning that
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they would put this perverted agenda ahead of caring for people in dire poverty. And as a carrot,
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before they would feed them, they would say, ah, ah, ah, ah, but you have to adopt this kind of
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perverse religious motto that we now have, this new religion of LGBT. And the poor countries are,
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you know, I watched in, in Kenya and in Uganda, where we just were, they said, keep your money.
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You know, it's really quite sorrowful. When I was in Iraq, when, in the war against ISIS,
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when the U.S. had left in the wake of Obama's withdrawal, it was just as catastrophic in Iraq
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after the U.S. withdraw as it was in Afghanistan. It's just, there was even less media, if you could
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imagine. And I met with a prominent young woman from an ethnic community in Iraq that was a minority
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ethnic community. And I asked if she met with the U.S. State Department. And she was of an embattled
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ethnic minority facing genocide. She said, I did. I met with them once and they sat across from me and
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said, we're focused on LGBT issues right now, not ethnic issues. It doesn't seem like religious
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freedom is a value anymore. The Newseum just closed in Washington, D.C. when we needed it more than ever.
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The museum in Washington, D.C. committed to the First Amendment has recently closed. It's as if we
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no longer believe in freedom of speech. We no longer believe in freedom of religion. So then what are we
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carrying around the world? It's that rainbow flag. And I've really come to see that the damage that
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that ideology does at home, it's collateral damage. I really believe that the agenda of the rainbow flag
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is to disrupt communities around the world for exploitation. When you look at what's happening in
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Central Asia, when you look at what's happening in Africa and how disruptive it is, it seems to be as
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if it is by design, it is by design to disrupt and bring collapse to these societies that makes them
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more vulnerable for exploitation. You know, our organization, the Vulnerable People Project, I think
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this is a propos back here. I don't understand what's happening right now. You know, the Vulnerable
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People Project, sometimes people criticize us for not proselytizing in Afghanistan. I say, I proselytize
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and my team proselytizes by showing radical love to vulnerable people. I'm not going to grab somebody
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who's fleeing extremist ideology and then like a fireman as he's trying to save somebody say, you know,
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can you say the Nicene Creed for me before I carry you out of this burning building? We don't do that.
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But the State Department does that. USAID does that. Before we are going to give you aid,
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you must accept this radical ideology that is totally alien to your culture. It's alien to our
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culture. It's alien to every culture, but especially in like Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East.
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And so you have to ask yourself, that's what this is. So it's really up to the church. The secular world,
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the secular media cannot even comprehend Christian suffering. If anything, I think they see it as
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some sort of retribution that they want to see Christians suffer. The crisis in Nigeria,
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the LifeSite News is one of the, I was just meeting with a reporter from another news organization,
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told him I was coming to meet with you. He said, you're meeting with John Henry. Tell him,
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thank you for their coverage of Nigeria. Thank you for what you've done in Afghanistan. Thank you for
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what you've done in Iraq and around the world. The secular media will never comprehend the suffering
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of Christians. So when the Christians are being brutalized in Nigeria, nine out of 10 Christians
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in the world who are killed are killed in Nigeria, but the media will never cover it. When Christian
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school children were killed in Tennessee recently, the media saw the perpetrator as the victim. In fact,
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the State Department recently said the Fulani tribesmen who are killing peaceful Christians are the
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victims in this struggle. And none of this makes sense. It's incomprehensible. So what does that mean?
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That means Christians partner with other people who are just sensible. We need a battle through the
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institutions. We need to win elections. We need to put people in those administrations who their policy
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will reflect people who share our values. But beyond that, we didn't wait at the Vulnerable People
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Project. We evacuated U.S. citizens. We're evacuating U.S. citizens now from Sudan. We're not going to wait
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on the government to do this. We cannot wait on the U.S. State Department because, again, they're spilling
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poison into the water. We can't count on them to help us deliver clean water when they're polluting
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water, so ideologically speaking. So it's a great struggle. But I would say that every generation has
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its struggles, right? Our grandparents had World War II and the Depression and the rise of Nazism and
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Communism. And, you know, you can look at every generation and they have earth-shattering changes.
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We have, we're living through a great struggle right now. I think what's, it's for those of us in
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the Anglosphere, in the English-speaking world, like the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
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and the U.K., just what happened just in Ireland recently, basically criminalizing LifeSite News. Now,
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I guess you guys are criminalized in Ireland. Can you believe this? So to see this happen in the
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English-speaking world, which has been the beacon of liberty around the world, just not the United
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States, is what's disheartening. And imagine how hopeless the world is going to seem to people
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when there's nowhere to look up to. It will be as if hope has left the world. Well, then they have to
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see the church. And then we as Christians need to be this light in this dark world because people are
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no longer able to look to the United States. We were so proud and pleased to be some small part
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in supporting your work with Vulnerable People Project, with rescuing people from Afghanistan and
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all over the place. You've got a new project, the Vulnerable Paris Project. What's that?
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And I credit LifeSite News for that. Like, you guys don't really begin to understand what you did
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for us. At VPP, prior to the fall of Afghanistan, we did some work delivering aid in Iraq in that
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crisis and in Sudan during the genocide. But we're not a relief organization. That's not really what
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we do. We try to harness influence and communicate to the world the suffering that's happening when
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the world is left in dark places in the world. But through LifeFunder, what happened almost overnight
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is that we had hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting in a bank account, which is,
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for our little organization, was an immense thing. And then we were able to, with that money,
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build the most successful evacuation and resettlement effort in the world. And then beyond that,
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we've delivered now almost 3 million meals since the fall of Afghanistan. 2 million meals just this
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Christmas, a million meals the year before. And beyond that, then we got a reputation of people
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who can do things others can't. And we were asked to evacuate people from Ukraine. We were able to do
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that and set up shelters in Ukraine. And now we're being inundated with help in Sudan. Well,
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we've sort of figured this out. This was all built off of LifeFunder. If not for LifeFunder,
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the people that we had in safe houses would have stayed there or been let out. If not for LifeFunder,
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you know, through LifeFunder, you introduced us to donors. They now participate with us. We built
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medical centers. We have, for women, we have, we're supporting three schools and a university.
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We've taken over safe houses that very large organizations in Pakistan had to abandon.
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We quadrupled their caloric intake every day. We started school programs in those safe houses.
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And you might have recently heard that we partnered with another organization, a Jewish aid
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organization, to resettle 20 girls that were wounded by ISIS and through our Catholic community,
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get them not only free health care, but free university education in Spain.
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And I really credit that with LifeFunder. You helped us grow from an organization that tried to
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harness influence to an organization that we found that we can do something that other groups haven't
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kind of figured out yet, which is how to serve people in these sort of dangerous and tragic
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situations. And I'll tell you what our secret is. It's we're Catholic. That's our secret.
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And that we know how to persevere. We can work in the dark with no light around, like GK Chesterton
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said. It can be pitch black and we'll just kind of keep walking. And so the secret to Vulnerable People
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Project Success in Ukraine, in Afghanistan, now in Sudan, is that we know that the apostolate of
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serving the vulnerable is Good Friday. And it means you're going to be lonely. It's going to be
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challenging. But there's always the resurrection. We have that. We know that and we have the hope of
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that. But you did not play a small part. We were privileged. You weren't able to come to the country
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at the time. But we were honored to give LifeSite News one of our two awards of the year, our hero awards.
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And the other was to EWTN. And another was to a human rights attorney. And so between EWTN,
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LifeSite News, you are our two greatest partners that have allowed us to serve people when even
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governments have found it impossible to do. Beautiful. Jason Jones, thank you so much for
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being with us. Thank you, brother. It's so good to see you in person again. Amen to that.
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Thank you. And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.
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