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After Months of Almost No New Arrivals, Refugees Will Be Settling in Oregon Again in 2021
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After adapting to record-low limits on refugee admissions, Catholic Charities now prepares to welcome more families A child looks on as a man cooks dinner for his family in in Yangon, Myanmar, last October. Catholic Charities of Oregon helped resettle Younus Sultan and his young family in 2018 after they fled violence in Myanmar. âIf I donât understand something, they explain it to us. If I still donât understand, they send someone to help me. Catholic Charitiesâ support is very critical,â said Sultan. (Shwe Paw Mya Tin/ Reuters via CNS)
select Jean Mucyurabuhoro and Elisabeth Nyirankumiriz, who escaped ethnic violence in eastern Congo and lived in a refugee camp for 23 years, are pictured with their grandchildren. Catholic Charities recently helped them rebuild their life in Portland. Though the number of refugees admitted into the United States drastically declined over the past four years, Catholic Charities fo
Statewide officials take their oaths across Oregon
Pandemic spreads out ceremonies normally conducted at the Capitol in Salem.
Three Oregon statewide officials took their oaths for four-year terms Monday, Jan. 4, in ceremonies spread out across the state during the coronavirus pandemic.
The pandemic resulted in alternatives to the usual ceremonies on the first Monday in January at the Capitol in Salem.
Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, the newest statewide official, chose the steps of Dufur School for her swearing in by Wasco County Judge Janet Stauffer, who lives in Dufur.
As a fourth-grade student, Fagan was encouraged by her teacher to join an after-school chess club, which eventually led her to win a state chess championship and turn her life around. She and two brothers were raised by their father in a one-parent household, while their mother struggled with addiction and homelessness in Portland.
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Shemia Fagan hosts a gathering consisting of more than 6 people, and people from numerous different households, in violation of Governor Kate Brown’s covid restriction orders. In the latest episode of the Laws For Thee, But Not For Me files, we see
Oregon s incoming Secretary Of State, Shemia Fagan (democrat, of course), hosting a gathering of about 12 people, many of them, including Fagan herself, not wearing masks. This is in direct violation of Covid restriction orders.
You may recall that Governor Brown recently ordered that gatherings may not exceed six people and they cannot be from more than two households.
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