In response to a Freedom of Information request from Barnabas Fund (BF), the UK Home Office released figures on Syrian refugees resettled in the UK for the first quarter of 2018.
The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) recommended 1,358 Syrian refugees for resettlement in the UK of which only four were Christians, representing a tiny fraction of just 0.29%. The Home Office agreed to resettle 1,112 of these (82%), all of whom were Muslims, and refused all recommendations of Christians for resettlement.
Of the 7,060 Syrian refugees the UNHCR recommended to the UK in 2017 only 25 were Christians (0.35%). However, the Home Office only accepted 11 of these – meaning that Christians made up only 0.23% of Syrian refugees resettled in the UK last year.
