refugees
What Biden’s new deal for Venezuelans means for other refugees
By Emily McFarlan Miller and Paul O'Donnell — October 13, 2022
(RNS) — Faith-based refugee resettlement agencies welcome the new program, while advocating for refugees who have gotten less media coverage of late.
Answering the refugee crisis as a matter of faith
By Waseem Ahmad, Anne Burghardt, and Mark Hetfield — June 22, 2022
(RNS) — Faith groups are usually the first responders when people are displaced, and the last.
It’s time to end Title 42, the immoral — and illegal — Trump-era asylum policy
By Barbara Weinstein and Mary J. Novak — May 11, 2022
(RNS) — Not only is it our duty as people of faith to support those seeking refuge, but it is our duty as Americans to fight for policies that welcome asylum-seekers.
Pope Francis’ visit to Malta highlights the role of St. George Preca, an advocate for teaching the gospel
By Joanne M. Pierce — May 5, 2022
(The Conversation) — Malta’s St. George Preca was canonized in 2007. Pope Francis’ visit to Malta renewed attention on Preca’s life and work and how it could provide guidance for the welfare of refugees.
The climate crisis is increasingly a refugee crisis, faith resettlement groups say
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 22, 2022
(RNS) — For more than 80 years, LIRS has helped resettle refugees — increasingly those refugees have been displaced due to climate disasters.
Biden’s Uniting for Ukraine program is a start, faith-based refugee agencies say
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 21, 2022
(RNS) — The program, which the president announced Thursday (April 21), streamlines the process to provide Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion of their country with opportunities to come to the United States.
‘I hate the Russians’
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 21, 2022
(RNS) — Can you blame a Ukrainian Jewish refugee for not singing ‘Kumbaya’?
What I learned at the Ukraine-Poland border
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 14, 2022
(RNS) — ‘Never forget what your eyes have seen.’ Those words from Deuteronomy speak to me, louder than ever.
For rabbis visiting the border with Ukraine, Passover has a whole new meaning
By Yonat Shimron — April 14, 2022
(RNS) — In Poland, the group of 30 rabbis saw a modern-day example of what it’s like to flee from a pharaoh they called Putin into a land that may not be promised, but may provide a measure of safety.
An American rabbi went to help Ukrainian refugees. But he hoped to find his cousins.
By Michele Chabin — April 12, 2022
(RNS) — ‘I knew that finding them would be like finding a needle in a haystack,’ said Rabbi David Wilfond.
‘I have not forgotten you,’ Pope Francis tells migrants in Malta
By Claire Giangravé — April 3, 2022
RNS — The pontiff told migrants in Malta that he hopes they will one day become 'witnesses and agents of welcome and fraternity.'
As Afghan refugees celebrate Islam’s holy month, church gives Ramadan lessons
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 1, 2022
(RNS) — Somewhere between 75 and 100 UCC churches are actively sponsoring Afghan families — about 800 individuals — who have recently arrived in the US.
Polish Catholic community houses Ukrainian refugees as US agencies urge action
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 23, 2022
(RNS) — Agency leaders are applauding news the U.S. is expected to welcome up to 10,000 Ukrainians.
War in Ukraine may leave millions hungry, warns Eugene Cho of Bread for the World
By Bob Smietana — March 21, 2022
(RNS) — The crisis in Ukraine, a top producer of the world's wheat, comes at a time when global hunger is on the rise and could cause catastrophe.
Franklin Graham sends disaster response teams to Europe; says he opposes war
By Yonat Shimron — February 26, 2022
(RNS) — He said Samaritan’s Purse can help with food, clothing, housing and other needs. Graham denied supporting Putin in his war against Ukraine.
