Refugee resettlement: US faith-based groups describe what it will take to rebuild program after Trump cuts
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report on the response from US heads of faith-based groups to moves by the Biden administration to lift the number of refugee resettlements…
US faith-based groups cheer, share hopes for Biden’s family reunification task force
RNS Faith-based organisations are celebrating the creation of a taskforce to help reunite separated children with their families. Those same organisations had been involved in caring for children separated from their parents at the United States-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. David Xol-Cholom of Guatemala hugs his son Byron at Los Angeles […]
Lutherans ask Trump administration to admit more refugees as deadline looms
RNS Days before the deadline for the US Government to set its annual limit on the number of refugees that can be admitted to the United States, the Trump administration has not yet proposed that number, according to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, the largest faith-based organisation in the US dedicated to serving immigrants. If […]
Most US states agree to admit refugees as judge hears lawsuit to stop resettlement order
RNS A federal judge in Maryland heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit by three faith-based organisations against the US Government over a recent executive order allowing state and local officials to block refugee resettlement. In the complaint filed in November, HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), Church World Service and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service argue President […]
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 […]