refugees
Pope likens migrant holding centers to ‘concentration camps’
By Yonat Shimron — April 23, 2017
ROME (Reuters) The American Jewish Committee urged the pope "to reconsider his regrettable choice of words."
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.
In rural Canada, churches that once shunned one another open their hearts to Syrian refugees
By Bobby Ross Jr. — March 23, 2017
DAUPHIN, Manitoba (RNS) A year and a half ago, three churches put aside theological differences and came together to sponsor the resettlement of three Syrian refugee families to this rural Canadian community.
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.
Faith groups: New immigration order still anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant
By Lauren Markoe — March 6, 2017
(RNS) To many religious leaders, this is simply 'Muslim ban 2.0.'
Egypt’s Sisi orders Cabinet to help resettle Sinai Christians fleeing Islamic State
By Reuters — February 25, 2017
(Reuters) Hundreds of Christian families and students have fled to Ismailia, north Sinai's neighboring province, after seven Christians were killed in Arish between Jan. 30 and Thursday.
Elections matter. So does resistance.
By David P. Gushee — February 23, 2017
Resisting the tragic consequences of this election with the Matthew 25 Pledge.
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.
Christian aid group lays off staff in wake of Trump’s executive order on refugees
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 15, 2017
(RNS) World Relief is one of nine private agencies contracted with the U.S. government to resettle refugees.
Vietnamese refugee priest to Trump: Give my citizenship to a Syrian
By David Gibson — February 11, 2017
(RNS) The Catholic priest, who fled to the U.S. from war-torn Vietnam as a youth, wrote the president asking that his citizenship be given to a refugee barred under Trump’s Muslim travel ban.
500 prominent evangelicals take out full-page ad supporting refugees
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 9, 2017
(RNS) Christians are called to love their neighbors as themselves, and that includes "the stranger and anyone fleeing persecution and violence," according to the letter.
Trump’s order violates Establishment Clause, say 18 states
By Mark Silk — February 7, 2017
And they make an excellent point.
The oldest refugee rabbi dies
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 5, 2017
The oldest Reform rabbi was a refugee. Here is why it matters.
