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Terminations come despite two separate lawsuits aimed at Trump’s freeze of refugee program
President Donald Trump’s administration is making moves to shutter a decades-old partnership between the government and a group of mostly religious organizations to resettle refugees.
Another preliminary injunction also restricted immigration raids at churches
Religious groups challenging President Donald Trump won a pair of legal victories this week, blocking the administration’s efforts to dismantle the refugee program and reinstating sensitive-location protections from immigration enforcement in some houses of worship.
World Relief scrambles to support 4,000 refugees already in midst of resettling
Nonprofit ministries that partner with the federal government to resettle refugees are facing widespread layoffs and furloughs after President Donald Trump’s administration suspended the refugee program.
But they'll need help.
The Trump administration has halted a resettlement program for some refugees who have been awaiting resettlement for years.
The number of Christian refugees coming to the US has declined at a time when persecution is on the rise.
Fewer Christians fleeing persecution in their native countries have found a safe harbor in the United States in the past half decade, according to a new report from a pair of Christian ministries, which cites ...
Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, head of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, described President Biden's claim that Afghans did not want to leave the country as 'misleading at best.'
As most Americans absorbed the shock of the Taliban’s full takeover of Afghanistan, officials at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service followed the rapidly deteriorating situation with resignation, knowing it could have gone differently.
