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Update from World Relief

World Relief Welcomes Announcement of Ukrainian Refugee Resettlement and Humanitarian Assistance, Urges Broader Welcome

BALTIMORE – Today, President Biden announced a plan to admit as many as 100,000 Ukrainians to the United States as refugees and through other means. In addition, the United States is committingRead More

Today’s announcement follows three executive orders related to immigration signed on Tuesday....

World Relief Responds to Biden Administration’s Announcement on Refugee Resettlement

Presidential Determination for 2022
BALTIMORE, Feb. 4, 2021 – Today in an address at the State Department, President Biden announced an upcoming executive order focused on strengthening the U.S. refugee resettlement program, which includesRead More

These kinds of attacks are all too common in the Middle East

Opinion: How much longer will the Middle East celebrate Christmas?

John Kerry in Bethlehem Manger Square
by: Paul O’Donnell (Knox Thames) Dec .24, 2020 (RNS) — Days before the start of Advent, mobs in a city 200 miles south along the Nile from Cairo burned CopticRead More

And, notably, he made the announcement Thursday (Nov. 12) to a Catholic group that works with refugees.

Biden pledges to raise refugee ceiling to 125,000 in address to Jesuit group

Joe Biden
by: Emily McFarlan Miller Nov. 12, 2020 (RNS) — President-elect Joe Biden announced he will raise the number of refugees allowed into the United States to 125,000 in his firstRead More

In recent weeks, several faith-based organizations involved in refugee resettlement had asked the administration to raise that number to its past average: 95,000.

Faith-based organizations express outrage over plan to cut refugee admissions to historic low — again

President Trump Participates in a Naturalization Ceremony
by: Emily McFarlan Miller Oct. 1, 2020 (RNS) — The Trump administration has announced the maximum number of refugees it plans to admit into the United States in the comingRead More