Mark Hetfield

Mark Hetfield is an author at Religion News Service.

All Stories by Mark Hetfield

Answering the refugee crisis as a matter of faith

By Waseem Ahmad, Anne Burghardt, and Mark Hetfield — June 22, 2022
(RNS) — Faith groups are usually the first responders when people are displaced, and the last.

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for refugee resettlement in this country

By Mark Hetfield, Richard L. Santos, and Krish O’Mara Vignarajah — December 9, 2021
(RNS) — Refugee resettlement has always been a public-private partnership, relying on the generosity of American communities who come together and welcome newcomers.

Her family was denied entry to the US. She entered years later, alone

By Mark Hetfield — June 6, 2017
(RNS) The St. Louis' 937 passengers, most of whom were Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, found neither protection nor pity. On the 78th anniversary of this tragedy, we must resolve not to let this happen again.
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