migrants
Pope deploys Cuban crucifix to front line of migrant crisis
By Rosie Scammell — November 13, 2015
(RNS) Standing more than 9 feet tall, the crucifix is made of wooden oars as a symbol of migration. It was given to Francis by Cuban President Raul Castro during the pontiff’s visit in September.
Meet the Nobel-nominated priest who rescues African refugees from Mediterranean
By Fredrick Nzwili — October 13, 2015
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Mussie Zerai, a 40-year-old Catholic priest from tiny Eritrea in North Africa, is getting recognition for his work rescuing African refugees in the Mediterranean.
What the Book of Jonah can teach us about the global refugee crisis (COMMENTARY)
By Will Berkovitz — October 9, 2015
(RNS) For $20,000 you can take your family on a luxurious Mediterranean cruise. Or you can pay a smuggler to take your family on overcrowded life raft or rubber fishing dinghy, and pray they make it to the European coast without drowning.
Hungarian church thanks God, government for fending off migrants
By Reuters — October 2, 2015
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sealed Hungary's borders with Serbia to stem the influx and pledged not to let mainly Muslim migrants threaten Hungary's Christian traditions.
At a castle in Austria, villagers and refugees celebrate Eid al-Adha
By Reuters — September 25, 2015
(Reuters) An ancient castle in an Austrian village somewhere between Vienna and Hungary is not where you might expect to see an Islamic celebration.
The global refugee crisis is a moral test for all of us (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — September 16, 2015
(RNS) Nobody can make a nation recognize the human dignity and rights of refugees.
Religious groups push U.S. to take in 100,000 Syrian refugees
By Reuters — September 9, 2015
Groups pushing for this include the Church World Service, representing 37 Christian denominations, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and the Jewish refugee assistance agency HIAS.
Pope Francis: Every parish in Europe ‘take in one refugee family’
By Reuters — September 6, 2015
The first trip he made after his election in 2013 was to the Italian island of Lampedusa, between Sicily and Tunisia, where many migrants arrive by boat. Vatican City will take two families, he said Sunday.
It’s time for church people to stop their usual fussing (COMMENTARY)
By Tom Ehrich — September 2, 2014
(RNS) This year will be a test. Can American Christianity get over itself and truly serve a desperate society?
Pope Francis decries ‘globalization of indifference’
By Alessandro Speciale — July 8, 2013
VATICAN CITY (RNS) “We have become used to other people's suffering, it doesn't concern us, it doesn't interest us, it's none of our business," Pope Francis said in a visit to a Mediterranean island teeming with migrants from Africa.
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