Christians in the US have taken the Trump administration to task for a dramatic drop in the numbers of persecuted Christian and other refugees being admitted into the country, even though administration officials promised last year to help.
While administration officials vowed on several occasions to help Christians in the Middle East facing what Vice President Mike Pence last year called an “exodus” from their ancestral lands, US Christian groups trying to help them condemned the dramatic drop of refugees the Trump administration allowed into the US last year and this year.
The US Department of State recently released figures showing that 14,289 Christian refugees were admitted in 2018 compared to 25,162 the previous year.
Catholics joined a chorus of pleas by religious groups urging the administration to increase not just the number of Christian refugees but the number of people in general allowed to seek refuge in the US.
On September 12, they joined other groups outside the White House asking the administration to allow 75,000 refugees into the country in the next fiscal year.
