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Fact Check: Are Churches Across the Country Refusing to Help Feed Starving Babies?

By C. Douglas Golden November 22, 2025 at 3:00am

If you’ve spent any time at all on the faith-based bubble of TikTok, you may have encountered a woman who goes by the name Nikalie Monroe. She’s become so famous in trying to prove that churches do not feed starving babies that even The New York Times profiled her.

From a Sunday article about her experiments:

As the longest U.S. government shutdown in history cut food assistance for millions, she announced on TikTok a few weeks ago that she was conducting a social experiment. She was going to ask houses of worship to help her get a can of formula for a starving infant, in a test to see whether religious people really loved their neighbors.

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Charity, Christianity, Government shutdown, Religion, Social media, TikTok

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).

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Morristown, New Jersey

Education

Catholic University of America

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English, Spanish

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American Politics, World Politics, Culture