Glen Abbey United Church and Paul United Church

sponsorship: Paul United Church. "All these refugees being highlighted in the news and the need that out there, why aren't they on this list " The group, made up of members from St, according to Huffington Post Canada. Paul and nearby Glen Abbey United Church, had a discussion about their priorities and decided to proceed with the sponsorship anyway. "We need to realize — and maybe the rest of the community needs to realize — that there are refugees all over the world, that Syria the one being highlighted right now, but people are in need in many different places," Laforet said. But when they were presented with a list of government-vetted families awaiting sponsorship through the Blended Visa Office-Referred program, they were surprised to find there wasn't a single Syrian on there. "We thought, OK, well, why " said Deborah Laforet, minister of St. Demand has outstripped supply' According to the UN Refugee Agency , there are 59.5 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced from their homes by war, poverty or persecution. One way Canadians can sponsor families is through the BVOR program, which matches refugees identified for resettlement by UNHCR with private sponsors in Canada. Of those, 19.5 million were officially registered as refugees in 2014, and one in four is Syrian. "We need to realize — and maybe the rest of the community needs to realize — that there are refugees all over the world, that Syria the one being highlighted right now, but people are in need in many different places." The Canadian government has pledged to bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada through a combination of private and public sponsorship. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.