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Size and Shape of the Refugee Tract Refugee Tract lies between the arrows. The Refugee Tract of 103,527 acres (418.96 km 2) is located in parts of Franklin, Fairfield, Licking and Perry County, Ohio. It extends for 42 miles (68 km) eastward from the Scioto River along the south line of the United States Military District. For the first 30 miles ...
Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, [2] is a non-profit organization that supports refugees and migrants entering the United States. It is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies working with the Office of Refugee Resettlement [3] and one of two that serves unaccompanied refugee minors. [4]
The most relevant stone reads "Sep 1913 Rebuilt Aug. 26 1923" and the final stone links the congregation back to its Magyar Hungarian population, reading "United Magayr Protestant Church June 26, 1923". The church still holds services every Sunday and serves as a meeting place for the Hungarian Village Society as well as other community events. [7]
HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society [5]) is a Jewish American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. It was established on November 27, 1881, originally to help the large number of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States who had left Europe to escape antisemitic persecution and violence. [1]
A group representing U.S. veterans, service members and others is warning the Trump administration of severe impacts on U.S. security unless it exempts tens of thousands of Afghans – many at ...
Hours after taking office, Mr. Trump indefinitely paused the U.S. refugee admissions program, instructing officials to ban the entry of all refugees, a special legal classification for people ...
Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland.They were followed by students pursuing higher studies in the 1960s and 1970s, by the late 1970s through the late 1980s and early 1990s more Somalis arrived.
Church World Service (CWS) was founded in 1946 and is a cooperative ministry of 37 Christian denominations and communions, providing sustainable self-help, development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance around the world. The CWS mission is to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice at the national and international ...