(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...
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(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...
(RNS) — The former independent counsel and university president speaks about how his faith shaped his work and his views of refugees.
LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) — Exoneration in a blasphemy case in Pakistan rarely means one can start afresh. Instead, those acquitted face persecution from...
(RNS) — Religious support for the policy did not immediately fill inboxes and social media timelines. But opposition had started even before the rules were...
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...
The immigrant respite center run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley has received so many boxes that it had to rent additional storage space.
JERUSALEM (RNS) — 'If someone had told me 10 years ago this would happen, I’d have said a Jewish state would never send desperate refugees away to their...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Given his fiery online writings about minority rights — a potential death sentence for Pakistani activists and journalists — Ehsan Rehan was...
(RNS) A Lumpkin, Ga., judge denied a man's asylum request. After returning to El Salvador he was shot dead. On behalf of the man's brother, a ministry of...
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The report cites rampant job discrimination and says that more than half of Britain’s Muslims have witnessed Islamophobic attacks...
(Reuters) An ancient castle in an Austrian village somewhere between Vienna and Hungary is not where you might expect to see an Islamic celebration.
Nobody can make a nation recognize the human dignity and rights of refugees. That makes it a very stern moral test for all of us.
(RNS) Advocates for Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their six children are now looking to Congress to pass a bill allowing the home-schooling family to remain in...