Trocaire Relief Organization

Stung by separate incidents of criticism regarding their financial practices, the British and Irish branches of World Vision are taking a British TV network and the Irish Catholic Relief Agency to court. Both incidents, officials of World Vision contend, have undermined the major fund-raising effort of the group, which centers on a 24-hour Lenten fast for famine-struck people of the Third World. The fast, expected to raise as much as $4.

Stung by separate incidents of criticism regarding their financial practices, the British and Irish branches of World Vision are taking a British TV network and the Irish Catholic Relief Agency to court. Both incidents, officials of World Vision contend, have undermined the major fund-raising effort of the group, which centers on a 24-hour Lenten fast for famine-struck people of the Third World. The fast, expected to raise as much as $4.