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    For Mideast Christians, US refugee policy puts a damper on Christmas

    Dec 21, 2018 5 minutes
    Laith Yakona stands by the Christmas tree in his rented apartment in Amman, Jordan, Dec. 9, 2018. Yakona is one of hundreds of Iraqi Christian refugees in Jordan whose arrival on American soil has been suspended indefinitely.

    Laith Yakona wants only one thing for Christmas, the same thing he has prayed for the last four Christmases: to spend the holidays with his family.

    War, bombings, kidnappings, death threats, and death squads failed to break up the Yakona family in their hometown of Baghdad before leaving for Jordan. Yet after a decade of their navigating the increasingly polarized war-torn Iraq and then a life in exile, one event has split the family in two: a new life in America.

    “As soon as my parents left for America, our lives here have been on hold,” Mr. Yakona says from the sparse rented apartment he shares with his sister in Amman, a Christmas tree propped in the corner behind the television. “Our family is torn in two, and we have been given no reason why.”

    Yakona is one of thousands of Christian refugees from the Middle East whose arrival

    Tale of separationNo answers for the familiesMoney from mother in America

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