World Refugee Day
Welcoming the stranger on World Refugee Day
By Bridget Moix — June 21, 2023
(RNS) — Accepting refugees professionally and compassionately is part of America’s history.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, others encourage US to rebuild refugee resettlement ahead of World Refugee Day
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 17, 2021
(RNS) — ‘A system that took 40 years to build was devastated in just four years,’ said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
Church World Service hosts Ration Challenge around World Refugee Day
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 19, 2019
(RNS) — The global challenge — organized in the United States by Church World Service — asks participants to live for a week on the same food rations refugees receive to raise money and awareness for the challenges they face.
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.
On World Refugee Day we must be willing to separate truth from ‘willful blindness’
By Tim Breene — June 20, 2017
(RNS) Our society too easily equates the admission of refugees into this country with the threat of terrorism, largely because the policy has become a partisan ideology, not because this viewpoint is substantiated by facts.
COMMENTARY: Faith communities on the front line of refugee aid
By Dale Hanson Bourke — June 19, 2014
(RNS) While some may wage wars in the name of their religion, others care for the refugees who flee the violence because of their faith.
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