This Lenten season, Catholic Relief Services marks 50 years of life-saving and community-building efforts through its annual Rice Bowl almsgiving program. However, CRS now faces deep cuts in funding through the Trump Administration’s freezing of funds flowing from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), from which CRS gets half of its $1.5 billion budget. Now, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is asking for critical funding.