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‘She is loose’: A historic group of female Lutheran bishops on #MeToo and the Holy Spirit
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 25, 2018
CHICAGO (RNS) — The ELCA has elected the largest number of female bishops in one year to lead the mainline denomination.
10 months on, the babies of Rohingya rape survivors arrive
By Kristen Gelineau — July 5, 2018
UKHIYA, Bangladesh (AP) — More than 10 months have passed since Myanmar's security forces launched a sweeping campaign of rape and other brutalities against the Rohingya, and the babies conceived during those assaults have been born.
US travel ban leaves far-flung Syrian family in limbo
By Sarah El Deeb — July 2, 2018
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — The travel ban has thrown yet another obstacle in the way of Syrian refugees whose status in neighboring countries is already uncertain.
Supreme Court upholds Trump’s travel ban
By Jack Jenkins — June 26, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — In a 5-4 decision, the high court has upheld the president’s temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from a group of primarily Muslim-majority countries, ruling that it is within the executive branch’s power to 'suspend entry of aliens into the United States.'
On World Refugee Day, Muslim family recalls warmer welcome in decades past
By Yonat Shimron — June 20, 2018
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Almasa Bass looks around with sadness at the difference 20-plus years have wrought.
Ugandan faith leaders grapple with accepting Israel’s African refugees
By Lauren Markoe — April 30, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – Some Ugandan faith leaders say their nation must accept African refugees facing deportation from Israel, while others counter that resettlement would place too heavy a burden on already overtaxed refugee resettlement efforts.
A new streetwear line for Muslim women takes the frills out of modest fashion
By Aysha Khan — March 19, 2018
(RNS) — Seek Refuge, a new crowdfunded streetwear brand for millennial Muslim women, issues a challenge to the traditional modest fashion industry — all while taking up the cause of refugees.
Refugee groups fight Trump travel ban — and for their own survival
By Jack Jenkins and Emily McFarlan Miller — February 16, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — For the six faith-based agencies authorized to settle refugees in the U.S., the battle over the travel ban is also a fight to protect their ministries — and, by extension, the refugees they serve.
Massacre of Rohingya Muslims and mass graves in Myanmar
By Jerome Socolovsky — February 1, 2018
BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (AP) — The graves are the newest piece of evidence for what looks increasingly like a genocide in Myanmar's western Rakhine state against the Rohingya, a long-persecuted ethnic Muslim minority in the predominantly Buddhist country.
El Al is a Jewish airline
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 22, 2018
Looking for moral heroism in our time? Look no further than a bunch of El Al pilots. You read that right.
In Israel, a rabbinical plan to hide Africans facing deportation
By Lauren Markoe — January 18, 2018
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 deaths,' said Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister of comedian Sarah Silverman.
Baby Jesus was a Dreamer in Egypt
By Thomas Reese — January 9, 2018
(RNS) — Christians, especially those who believe that Scripture should be the foundation of American law, should be leading the charge in support of Dreamers, refugees and other immigrants.
Pope on 2018: Forget life’s ‘useless baggage’
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 1, 2018
(AP) Don't let freedom be corroded by consumerism and 'the overpowering waves of empty chatter,' Pope Francis urged.
Pope on Christmas: Bethlehem trek’s like today’s migrations
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 24, 2017
(AP) — Migrants are 'surviving the Herods of today' who shed innocent blood to impose their power, Pope Francis said.
Judge’s partial lifting of Trump ban gives refugees hope
By Yonat Shimron — December 24, 2017
SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. District Judge James Robart granted a nationwide injunction that blocks the administration's restrictions on reuniting refugee families and partially lifts a ban on refugees from 11 mostly Muslim countries.
