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The past week of the Trump administration featured President Donald Trump meeting with Asian leaders overseas, as the ongoing government shutdown continues to have an impact here at home.
Multiple Christian humanitarian groups have denounced President Donald Trump’s recent ban on the travel of people from several nations due to their ties to terrorism.
Eleven Iranian Christian converts who were deported from the United States earlier this year, including 27-year-old Artemis Ghasemzadeh, have reportedly received a six-month extension to remain in Panama on humanitarian visas.
A member of a church working to ensure Afghan Christian refugees who attend the place of worship can remain in the country is lamenting the Trump administration’s “doubling down” in ensuring the removal of Aghans from the country as she pushes back on the idea that Afghanistan is now safe enough for them to return.
A ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina is helping settle Afrikaner refugees who have traveled from South Africa to the United States, seeing it as a biblical mandate to help even if they disagree with the Trump administration's handling of refugee admissions.
For asylum, whites need not apply.
The Episcopal Church will terminate its partnership to resettle refugees with the U.S. government over a request to resettle a group of white Afrikaners after the administration had effectively halted the U.S. refugee program.
