Postcards: Refugees battle digital divide to stay documented in South Africa
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on claims from refugees and asylum seekers that challenges with renewing their permits on the country’s new online system leave them at risk of deportation and harassment…
Australian Christian leaders urge Prime Minister to take 20,000 Afghanistan refugees following Taliban takeover
Sydney, Australia Australian Christian leaders have called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to accept 20,000 refugees from Afghanistan after the Taliban reclaimed power when Western forces left after 20 years in the country. It comes as more than 130,000 people – supported by the National Council of Churches in Australia and the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce – have […]
Vatican denounces UK laws regulating immigration, calls for “a wider we”
Vatican CityRNS The Vatican presented its plans for the 107 World Day of Migrants and Refugees during a news conference Thursday. The event will take place on 26th September with the theme “Toward an Even Wider We.” The Migrants and Refugee section at the Vatican will spearhead this year’s campaign. Speakers at the news conference […]
Catholic aid is helping returned African migrants counter hunger, COVID-19
Harare, ZimbabweReligion Unplugged Catholic organisations are stepping up efforts to assist migrants returning to Africa as southern African countries – including Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa and Malawi – relax COVID-19 restrictions and open up land borders. In some countries, strict lockdowns worsened hunger and joblessness, threatening asylum seekers and citizens returning from abroad with starvation. […]
Biden pledges to raise refugee ceiling to 125,000 in address to Jesuit group
RNS President-elect Joe Biden announced he will raise the number of refugees allowed into the United States to 125,000 in his first year in office, a major reversal from President Donald Trump’s steep cuts to the US refugee program. It’s not the first time Biden has made that pledge. He previously floated the number in a statement […]