refugee

Lutheran refugee agency is ‘cautiously hopeful’ following blocked immigration order

By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 27, 2017
CHICAGO (RNS) President Trump's executive order would have more than halved the number of refugees accepted by the United States from the current ceiling of 110,000.

Trump vows to appeal travel ban ruling to Supreme Court

By Reuters — March 15, 2017
(Reuters) The new ban had been set to go into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday.

Brother of killed asylum seeker: ‘Tell the judge he told the truth’

By Marie Friedmann Marquardt — March 9, 2017
(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 hospitality and visitation wrote a letter to the judge.

3 Muslim Americans on their lives today: Facing new obstacles

By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 9, 2017
(RNS) 'Muslims have always dealt with feeling misunderstood, but this is altogether something different,' said 24-year-old Nadia Dreid.

Christians in the pew and pulpit diverge over Trump policies on refugees

By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 23, 2017
(RNS) The divide between the people in the pews and those in the pulpit and other leadership positions isn’t new, but it has been notable throughout Trump’s campaign and in the first month of his presidency – especially among white Protestant Christians.

People of all faiths reject refugee ban

By Jerome Socolovsky — January 29, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) Few if any of the people who protested this weekend, and especially those who did so out of religious convictions, believe President Donald Trump's contention that his refugee ban is not aimed at Muslims.

Churches connect Christmas story to refugee crisis

By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 22, 2016
(RNS) Refugees. Genocide. Oppressive regimes. These aren't the warm, fuzzy parts of the Christmas story most churches like to focus on, but some are connecting the Holy Family's flight to Egypt at the end of that story to the modern-day refugee crisis.

Iraqi refugee works to make life safer for secular humanists

By Ken Chitwood — December 3, 2013
(RNS) Most people assume that because Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar is an Iraqi refugee, he is Muslim. This is not the case. Al-Mutar is a secular humanist, and an outspoken one at that.
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