asylum
Words On Fire With Fred Garcia
By Ray Kirstein — April 6, 2024
State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with crisis communication expert Helio Fred Garcia, author of the book "Words on Fire: The Power of Incendiary Language and How to Confront It"
Born in tragedy, Refugee Shabbat honors our 110 million neighbors looking for a home
By Joshua Hammerman — February 1, 2024
(RNS) — The sheer numbers of people displaced should tell us this is a shared problem.
Franklin Graham’s border tour draws 20,000 signers demanding its cancelation
By Yonat Shimron — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — Critics are calling the 10-city tour 'hypocritical' and denouncing what they say are Graham's 'anti-immigrant' views.
We can have secure borders without denying those fleeing persecution
By Jamie Ivey and Briana Stensrud — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — Restricting access to asylum shouldn't be part of serious immigration reform.
New asylum policies after Title 42 ‘don’t address root cause,’ say faith-based groups
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 23, 2023
(RNS) — New policies that took effect last week are exacerbating the strain on many shelters on the southern side of the United States-Mexico border.
Amid Catholic opposition, House passes GOP-backed border security bill
By Alejandra Molina — May 12, 2023
(RNS) — Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso called the bill 'harmful' and 'extreme' in a letter signaling the US bishops’ opposition to the legislation. The legislation is not likely to pass the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Faith-based refugee resettlement agencies denounce new asylum rule
By Yonat Shimron and Alejandra Molina — May 11, 2023
(RNS) — The new rule, which goes into effect May 16, rejects asylum claims for most people who cross the border but do not first seek asylum in Mexico.
Faith-based organizations urge Biden not to enact ‘asylum ban’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 23, 2023
(RNS) — The proposed policy 'borders on a wealth test for some of the most vulnerable children and families,' said one advocate.
Faith-based groups on border unswayed after lawmakers’ call to investigate them
By Alejandra Molina — December 22, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The gospel compels us to do so. If that’s unpopular with certain members of Congress, so be it,’ said Anthony Granado with Catholic Charities USA.
Former refugees mark 75th anniversary of the only US safe haven during Holocaust
By Bob Smietana — August 8, 2019
(RNS) — During WWII, a group of refugees from the Holocaust found a safe haven in upstate New York as guests of President Roosevelt. Former refugees returned this week to mark the 75th anniversary of their arrival in 1944.
Seeing Jesus in the migrants at the border
By Alan Cross — June 27, 2019
(RNS) — Jesus saw Óscar and Valeria. Jesus saw the woman and the three little children who died in the desert. He sees all of the crowds of migrants, harassed and helpless and fleeing from a home they can no longer stay in to journey to a place they have never been. He wants us to see them too.
Ken Starr on his faith, the Mueller investigation, the Clintons and refugees
By Maina Mwaura — December 10, 2018
(RNS) — The former independent counsel and university president speaks about how his faith shaped his work and his views of refugees.
Asia Bibi, in hiding after blasphemy acquittal, is banned from leaving Pakistan
By Bob Smietana — November 30, 2018
LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) — Exoneration in a blasphemy case in Pakistan rarely means one can start afresh. Instead, those acquitted face persecution from religious groups that refuse to recognize the jurisdiction of the courts.
Faith leaders denounce Trump proclamation denying asylum outside border crossings
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 9, 2018
(RNS) — Religious support for the policy did not immediately fill inboxes and social media timelines. But opposition had started even before the rules were made official.
Honduran woman vows to fight for asylum from Utah church
By Brady McCombs — July 10, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Seeing other immigrant parents separated from their children at the border makes her even more reticent to return home and face a possible split from her daughters if she tried to seek U.S. asylum again.
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