Faith Groups Oppose New Rules on Religious Worker Visas

New rules in the U.S.’ religious worker visa program are under fire from a variety of faith groups, as RNS’ Omar Sacirbey reports in this week’s full-text article, linked above.

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“There is not enough evidence to warrant these rule changes,” said Ishani Chowdhury, director of the Hindu American Foundation, an advocacy group based in Kensington, Md., a Washington suburb.

Hindu and other religious officials have complained that the new definitions and requirements are written from an almost exclusively Christian perspective that doesn’t take into account other religious traditions.