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President Trump Signs FY 2020 Presidential Determination, World Relief Responds
Late Friday night, the president signed the Fiscal Year 2020 Presidential Determination, setting the cap for refugee arrivals at the lowest level in U.S. history – 18,000.
Read MoreWorld Relief Laments Zero Refugee Admissions in October 2019
World Relief, a leading faith-based relief and development organization, today mourns the fact that as of yesterday. the U.S. has resettled no refugees for a full month.
Read MoreWorld Relief to Implement Reconciliation, Stabilization and Resilience Trust Fund Project in South Sudan
World Relief was recently awarded a grant from the new Reconciliation, Stabilization, and Resilience Trust Fund (RSRTF) for South Sudan.
Read MoreWorld Relief Denounces Proposed FY2020 Refugee Cap of 18,000
Today, the Trump administration announced its intention to set a refugee ceiling of just 18,000 for FY 2020. World Relief strongly opposes this cut to the nation’s refugee resettlement program, which would mean slashing the number of refugees allowed to the U.S. beyond the historically low ceiling set for FY 2019.
Read MoreThis International Day of Peace, World Relief Thanks the Men and Women Who Work to Make the World a More Peaceful Place
On this International Day of Peace, World Relief celebrates with the thousands of women and men it has partnered with to make the world a better, safer place.
Read MoreWorld Relief Receives $749,606 John Templeton Foundation Grant to Expand Families for Life Programming in Burundi
World Relief was recently awarded a voluntary family planning grant from the John Templeton Foundation for their work strengthening families and communities in Burundi.
Read MoreWorld Relief Calls Americans to Partner in Response to Ebola’s Public Health Emergency Status in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Earlier this month, the World Health Organization formally declaredthe Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) after the first case was diagnosed in Goma, at the border of Rwanda.
Read MoreWorld Relief Responds to Interim Final Rule Asylum Regulation
The Trump administration announced Monday an interim final rule, effective yesterday, making families fleeing persecution who come through the U.S.-Mexico border ineligible for asylum consideration unless they first applied for and were denied asylum in one of the countries through which they traveled.
Read MoreWorld Relief Sponsors Side Event to Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom to Urge the Restoration of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program
Today, World Relief, HIAS, The Episcopal Church, the National Association of Evangelicals and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS) cosponsored an official congressional briefing as a side event to the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom.
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