Archdiocese of Toronto and Jordanian Authorities

Office for Refugees: They feared the worst — that their Sudanese friend had been rounded up by Jordanian authorities in an organized government campaign to deport the African refugees to their war-torn homeland, according to Toronto Star. We all had a complete heart attack when we did not hear from him, said Smith, a member of Many Villages, a private sponsorship group affiliated with the Office for Refugees with the Archdiocese of Toronto and St. Suddenly, on Dec. 7, all the email communication with the 29-year-old stopped. James Parish. The Sudanese man, who cannot be identified because he and his sponsors fear for his safety, is now in hiding but hundreds of others among the 3,500 Sudanese refugees in Jordan registered with the United Nations as protected persons have already been flown back to Darfur, according to the UN refugee agency and human rights groups.ORAT and community refugee sponsorship groups have written to Immigration Minister John McCallum asking the federal government to expedite the processing of 10 Sudanese refugees, including a family of five, who have already been identified and matched with private sponsorship groups for resettlement in Canada. On Dec. 19, he emailed us back and said he okay, but police had burst into his apartment when he was out for groceries and arrested all his roommates. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.