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By Allie Pitchon, Petersburg Progress-Index June 9, 2025  Commonwealth Catholic Charities, based in the greater Richmond region, Newport...

Elizabeth Homes from CBS 6 sat down with a former foster youth, current foster parents, and our own BeBe Tran to talk about the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors foster care program in Richmond. 

As a country of immigrants, the United States has been a leader in the free world welcoming the tired, the poor and the refugee...

by  Kate Seltzer, The Virginia Pilot Below are excerpts shared with permission from The Virginia Pilot. Read full article. Photo from...

Lent came early this year for Commonwealth Catholic Charities. We’ve sacrificed much in the past month.

Commonwealth Catholic Charities said it has welcomed 348 legally authorized refugees since its current fiscal year began Oct. 1.

The new administration has indefinitely paused refugee resettlement and suspended payment on current contracts that enable CCC and other...

Thanks to CCC’s incredible volunteers, families are not alone as they navigate their new communities. 

12 newcomers from CCC’s refugee resettlement program are cooking their way to self-sufficiency

CCC’s Independent Living Program helps youth from foster care become self-sufficient as they reach adulthood.

In the fall of 2021, the Ishan family fled Afghanistan to seek safety in the United States.  CCC met them at the airport and supported...

Sona Rahmani lost everything when she fled her home in Afghanistan. As she builds a new life in Roanoke, she wants to remind fellow refugees

Just four years after arriving in the United States as a refugee from Afghanistan, Chef Hamidullah Noori opened his restaurant, The...