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As thousands of immigrants cross the United States’ southern border illegally every week, a recent report by two global Christian relief organizations has found that the U.S. has reduced the resettlement of Christians fleeing global persecution by 70% compared to 2016.
For example, the number of Christian refugees resettled in 2022 compared to 2016 from Eritrea (#4 on the 2023 World Watch List) was down 85%, Iran (#8) down 95%, Myanmar/Burma (#14) down 92%, and Iraq (#18) down 94%. Just 1,044 Christian refugees from those four countries were resettled last year, compared to 12,883 in 2016.
Gayle Manchin, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) chair, noted that this historically low refugee ceiling “fail[ed] to reflect that unprecedented numbers of individuals worldwide [who] are forcibly displaced by conflict or persecution, including based on their religion or belief.”
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As thousands of immigrants cross the United States’ southern border illegally every week, a recent report by two global Christian relief organizations has found that the U.S. has reduced the resettlement of Christians fleeing global persecution by 70% compared to 2016.
For example, the number of Christian refugees resettled in 2022 compared to 2016 from Eritrea (#4 on the 2023 World Watch List) was down 85%, Iran (#8) down 95%, Myanmar/Burma (#14) down 92%, and Iraq (#18) down 94%. Just 1,044 Christian refugees from those four countries were resettled last year, compared to 12,883 in 2016.
Gayle Manchin, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) chair, noted that this historically low refugee ceiling “fail[ed] to reflect that unprecedented numbers of individuals worldwide [who] are forcibly displaced by conflict or persecution, including based on their religion or belief.”
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Persecuted Christians Increasingly Denied Asylum in U.S.
Resettlement of Christians fleeing persecution down by 70% since 2016.
