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February 13, 2017

Vietnamese refugee priest to Trump: Give my citizenship to a Syrian

An internally displaced refugee girl from al-Bab town waits to receive food aid Jan. 21, 2017, in Ekhtreen town, northern Aleppo countryside, Syria.

A Catholic priest who fled to the U.S. from war-torn Vietnam as a youth has written to President Trump offering to surrender his American citizenship so that Trump could confer it on a Syrian refugee who would be barred under the president’s controversial order banning travellers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries.

Published in International
February 19, 2016

Canada to restore refugee health care funding

Syrian refugee children pose for a photo Jan. 14 in a child-friendly space created by Mercy Corps inside the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan, near the Syrian border.

OTTAWA - The federal government announced Feb. 18 it will be restoring health care for all refugees seeking a new life in Canada.

Published in Canada
December 4, 2015

Churches ahead of government in resettling Syrian refugees

The private sponsorship of refugees fleeing wartorn Syria is well ahead of government sponsorship at the moment, though the federal government promises to step up the numbers of refugees resettled.

The federal government has rewritten its timeline to bring 25,000 refugees to Canada this year and acknowledges that to resettle them here by the end of February is an enormous challenge.

Published in Canada