(RNS) — Framed on a wall in my office is a copy of the Refugee Act, bearing the signature of President Jimmy Carter. As the world mourns his death and reflects upon his life, among his greatest ...
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh, and my family’s world was upended. My father, who ran a small pharmacy, succumbed to dysentery and malnutrition in one of the regime’s labor ...
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump approved a new annual refugee cap of 18,000, the lowest since the U.S. program began in 1980. The reduction follows news that America took a pause last month ...
In a series of sweeping new immigration policies, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office that suspends refugee admissions and resettlement in the U.S. effective ...
The loss of federal funding for a refugee resettlement program in January has left nearly 400 refugees in the Chicago area – including more than 90 in the Aurora area — in limbo, says the Chicago area ...
The Evangelical humanitarian organization World Relief says refugee families it has helped resettle in Minnesota may be ...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Faith-based groups that partner with the federal government to resettle refugees are facing widespread layoffs and furloughs after President Donald Trump’s administration suspended ...