Trump admin cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles
Washington DC, US RNS President Donald Trump’s administration is making moves to shutter a decades-old partnership between the government and a group of mostly religious organisations to resettle refugees, with the State Department abruptly cancelling grant agreements with all the agencies despite ongoing legal battles. On Wednesday, refugee resettlement organisations, such as Church World Service, […]
Aid freeze: Faith-based refugee groups face furloughs after Trump halts program, refuses to reimburse work
JACK JENKINS and ALEJA-HERTZLER-MCCAIN, of Religion News Service, report on the impacts of the Trump administration’s decisions surrounding refugees and foreign aid…
US agencies celebrate as Biden raises refugee ceiling to 125,000; UN says expulsions of Haitians may violate law
RNS Faith-based refugee resettlement groups are celebrating the Biden administration’s proposal to admit as many as 125,000 refugees to the United States in the coming year, calling the decision a “return to moral leadership”. The news came Monday afternoon as the Biden administration submitted its report to Congress setting the refugee ceiling for the new fiscal year, […]
Biden raises refugee ceiling, and faith-based groups brace for rebuilding work
Washington, US RNS 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 […]
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…
Essay: Reducing the refugee cap will decimate crucial faith-based partnerships
In an article first published by Religion News Service, Rev MICHAEL B CURRY, primate of the Episcopal Church in the US, responding to the announcement of further cuts to the US Refugee Admissions Program, says “turning our backs on refugees contradicts our Christian values and harms our nation”…