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Christian Campus Ministry Rejects COVID Relief to Avoid ‘Government Funds With Strings Attached’

April 24, 2020 by Staff

(The College Fix) The board of a nationwide Christian campus ministry recently voted against accepting some $130,000 to $180,000 in federal COVID relief aid for its nonprofit in what its president and CEO called a very difficult — but ultimately unanimous — decision.

“We need the money, as a nonprofit we want the money, we realize other less virtuous organizations are probably going to receive the money and utilize it for what we might see as non-virtuous ends, and we can do a lot of good with it,” Corey Miller, president of Ratio Christi, told The College Fix in a telephone interview Wednesday.

But, he added, “we don’t want to receive government funds with strings attached.”

Ratio Christi is an apologetics-evangelism organization with about 125 campus chapters, mostly at public universities

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