(ChurchLeaders) A report released by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley indicates the evangelical relief organization World Vision unwittingly funded an organization with links to terrorists in Sudan using grant money from the U.S. government. An investigative committee into World Vision’s actions concluded that instead of willfully funding terrorists, the Christian organization was guilty of relying on “flawed logic” and failing to perform even an “elementary level of vetting” of Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), the organization it funded.
“This failure occurred because World Vision’s system for vetting prospective sub-grantees was borderline negligent and ignored elementary level investigative procedures, such as failing to conduct basic secondary research that is widely available to the public on the internet via free search engines,” the Senate report reads.