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.
“We’re trying to get out 50—including family members—people who work with us and their families,” John Bradley said. “That number might grow. A lot of people are contacting us…We’re trying to help as many as ...
An Afghan official told Religion Unplugged that the country plans to repatriate various ancient artifacts they believe were looted from their national museum in the 1990s during civil war, including a medieval Hebrew prayer book ...