In the US, faith-based organisations are concerned about the immigration policy landscape
United States RNS While congressional Democrats are chiding Republican senators for walking away from a compromise immigration bill that restricts asylum, faith-based agencies that work with refugees and asylum-seekers expressed alarm in recent days about provisions of the bill and the turn that the conversation about immigration has taken. “You’re not going to solve anything […]
US immigration: What Biden’s latest deal for Venezuelans means for other refugees
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, speaks to representatives of US refugee resettlement agencies about what the US President Joe Biden’s deal focused on Venezuelan migrants means in the wider context…
Ukraine conflict: Polish Catholic community houses refugees as US agencies urge action
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on how the Polish Catholic community has responded to help some of the millions of refugees who have left Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on 24th February and why US agencies are calling for that country to take greater action…
Afghan refugees: As the vulnerable flee Kabul, US faith groups prepare to aid them
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports on preparations US faith groups are making to receive refugees from Afghanistan…
Biden raises refugee ceiling, and faith-based groups brace for rebuilding work
Washington, USRNS Faith-based refugee resettlement groups are celebrating President Joe Biden’s decision to raise the number of refugees allowed into the US for the remainder of the federal fiscal year to 62,500, even as they acknowledge that they need to rebuild their capacity after years of cuts under the previous administration. The announcement from the […]
US refugee cap: Biden reverses course after faith groups express outrage
JACK JENKINS and EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, writing for Religion News Service, report on the Biden administration indicated it would lift a cap on refugee resettlement numbers after an outcry from faith groups over what one leader described as a “breath-taking betrayal”…
Unaccompanied children: US faith-based agencies invite volunteers, donations as they care for young people at southern border
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report on the work of faith-based agencies responding to the crisis on the southern US border…
Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, former refugee and Obama White House advisor, to head Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service in US
Chicago, USRNS When Krish O’Mara Vignarajah and her family arrived in the United States as refugees fleeing civil war in Sri Lanka, the community welcomed them with open arms. Her dad found a job as a schoolteacher in Baltimore, where the family, including the then nine-month-old Vignarajah, settled. Krish O’Mara Vignarajah poses for a photograph with […]