A USCCB official confirmed to RNS they have been asked to lend support at these other forts as well. Other religious agencies said plans remain in flux.
After years of record-low refugee admissions and resettlement agencies reduced to skeletal staffs, the faith-based groups are now potentially facing numbers they haven’t seen in years packed into the span of a month or less.
“For many of us, this will be the most significant mission of our careers,” Vignarajah told RNS this week.
In a Wednesday night Zoom call to coordinate Fort Lee volunteers, a representative for a secular refugee resettlement group, the International Rescue Committee, said her group believes “the last flights out of Kabul are at the end of August” and stressed the need for more volunteers.
“I do know that we are going to need a lot of people,” the representative said.
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