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OXFORD, England – Church leaders and organizations in Africa, Europe and the United States said it would be disastrous if U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order telling companies they no longer had to disclose whether their firms use "conflict minerals" from Congo.

WASHINGTON – In a Feb. 16 statement, U.S. Catholic Church leaders said they were encouraged that President Donald Trump may be considering an executive order to protect religious freedom and said they would be grateful if he would move forward with the pledge that his administration would "do everything in its power to defend and protect religious liberty."

World Relief has announced it will lay off more than 140 staff members and close five local offices as a “direct result” of President Trump������Ƶapp order to more than halve the number of refugees resettled this year in the United States.

Canada can expect to see more asylum seekers crossing its 9,000 km, mostly unguarded, border with the United States as enforcement toughens at the U.S.-Mexican border and President Donald Trump continues to issue executive orders to restrain refugee arrivals, Catholic refugee advocates have told The Catholic Register.

OTTAWA – Church groups calling for the scrapping of the Safe Third Country agreement in response to U.S. President Trump������Ƶapp refugee policies are likely to remain disappointed.

WASHINGTON– Local Catholic Charities agencies are scrambling to save staff jobs as they respond to President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily suspending the country's refugee resettlement program.

Washington D.C. – President Donald Trump������Ƶapp administration will stop fighting in court to implement the Obama administration������Ƶapp transgender bathroom policy, leading to applause from a religious freedom legal group.

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

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An immigrant teacher and White House honoree fears President Donald Trump is undermining the community she has fought to lift up.

WASHINGTON – When they got the get — the third one-on-one interview with President Trump — staffers at CBN News took a moment for high-fives to celebrate.

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration welcomed a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries that also temporarily suspended the country's refugee resettlement program.

PHOENIX – The mother who made headlines as possibly the first unauthorized immigrant to be deported from the United States under President Donald Trump's immigration orders was being sheltered overnight by the Kino Border Institute in Nogales, Mexico, Feb. 9.

WASHINGTON – Receiving a prestigious human rights prize, an Iraqi lawmaker who gained international attention for her oppressed Yazidi religious minority decried the Trump administration's “unfair” executive order on immigration.

Catholic colleges and universities in Canada and the United States have condemned the Trump administration������Ƶapp policy of closing  America to refugees, banning all travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and building a wall along the Mexican border.

OTTAWA – Canadian organizations concerned about climate justice are preparing to resist any “Trump effect” on the environment.