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Crofton, MD Patch

Crofton Group Helps Unaccompanied Minor Immigrants Find Families - Crofton, MD - While searching for their loved ones in the U.S., Bethany Christian Services in Crofton places the children with temporary foster families.

WZZM 13 News

Bethany Christian Services looks to help youth begin their journey into the United States with a welcoming, open arms approach.

Voice of America

Originally from Honduras, Oberlina lives in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2018, she traveled with a migrant caravan to the U.S.-Mexico border, where she petitioned for asylum. Last week, the mother of two received a phone call from federal authorities.Her children, ages 6 and 11, had crossed the border into the United States, unaccompanied.“Immigration officials called me, and they said the children were OK. The next day they called me again. And they told me the children were feeling very sad. I talked to them through tears and so much anguish.

Yahoo News

A local organization is looking for volunteers to help the children who cross the Mexican border by providing loving transitional homes.

City Pulse

About 9 p.m. on a Saturday in early March, a caseworker from Bethany Christian Services in Lansing dropped two hungry kids from Honduras off at the home of their temporary foster parents, Elsa and Sebastian.

WLNS 6 News

East Lansing, Mich. (WLNS) — State officials say we are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years. Hundreds of people including children y…

WBAL-TV

A local organization is looking for volunteers to help the children who cross the Mexican border by providing loving transitional homes.

Biblical Recorder

Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore has joined other evangelical Christian leaders in urging President Joe Biden to address the substantial increase in unaccompanied children arriving at the border with Mexico in a compassionate manner that adheres to federal law. Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), and the eight other leaders of [...]Read More...

Grand Rapids Business Journal

My Community Dental Centers is sounding the alarm on disparities in dental health among West Michigan residents.

Time Magazine

The uptick of unaccompanied migrant children at the border is a challenge for agencies having to rebuild gutted systems to shelter them.