Vietnamese refugee priest to Trump: Give my citizenship to a Syrian
Source: RNS By David Gibson (RNS) A Catholic priest who fled to the U.S. from war-torn Vietnam as a youth has written to President Trump offering to surrender his American […]
Archbishop of Canterbury: ministers should reconsider child refugee decision
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Justin Welby leads calls among religious figures following government announcement that it will no longer accept lone children Justin Welby said he […]
100 evangelical leaders sign ad denouncing Trump’s refugee ban
Source: CNN CNN)-Scores of evangelical leaders, including at least one from each state, have taken out a full-page newspaper advertisement to denounce President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on refugees, urging […]
Afghan refugees’ status extended until end of year
Source: Aljazeera By Asad Hashim A crackdown by Pakistani authorities has seen a rise in both deportations and voluntary repatriations of Afghan nationals [File: Josh Smith/Reuters] Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s government has […]
Trump ban will hurt Christian refugees fleeing conflict, say Iraqi Catholic leaders
Source: Religion News Service By Josephine McKenna ROME (RNS) As confusion continued over President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travelers from seven Muslim countries, Catholic leaders from Iraq are […]
Quebec Mosque Attack Forces Canadians to Confront a Strain of Intolerance
Source: The New York Times By IAN AUSTEN and CRAIG S. SMITH QUEBEC — In a world often hostile to migration, Canada has stood out, welcoming thousands of refugees fleeing […]
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face relocation to island
Source: BBC The Bangladesh government is moving to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a vulnerable island in the Bay of Bengal. A government directive said they […]
Anxiety About Muslim Refugees Is Stoked Online by the Far-Right Media
Source: The New York Times By CAITLIN DICKERSON Type the word refugees into Facebook and some alarming “news” will appear about a refugee rape crisis, a refugee flesh-eating disease epidemic […]
With immigration in spotlight, congregations hear messages of inclusion
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey The liturgy read in churches across America on Sunday said: “Blessed are those who are persecuted.” What clergy said […]
Christian Leaders Denounce Trump’s Plan to Favor Christian Refugees
Source: The New York Times Over the past decade, Christians in the United States have grown increasingly alarmed about the persecution of other Christians overseas, especially in the Middle East. […]
US refugee ban: Canada’s Justin Trudeau takes a stand
Source: BBC Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken a stand on social media against the temporary US ban on refugees and immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. Mr Trudeau underscored […]
The Story Behind a Viral Message About the Holocaust and Refugees
Source: Time By Lily Rothman The idea had been brewing for a while, but it only took a few hours to turn it into a reality. That’s how Russel Neiss, 33, […]
What Could Trump’s Muslim Immigration Order Do?
Source: The Atlantic By MATT FORD For all his campaign-trail bombast about Muslim immigration to the United States and bluster about its supposed mortal perils, President Trump’s draft executive order to […]
Syrian refugee family to be given home inside London synagogue
Source: The Guardian A Syrian family shelters in a Turkish refugee camp. 20,000 vulnerable refugees are to be resettled in Britain by 2020. Photograph: Dona B /Pacific/ Barcroft Images BY Harriet […]
Vietnamese Refugee In Canada Now Helping Syrian Family Resettle
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor When Thuy Nguyen was just 12 years old, she left her native country of Vietnam and boarded a South Korean boat in […]
More than 1,000 migrants storm border at Spain’s Ceuta
Source: Aljazeera More than 1,000 migrants tried to jump a high double fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Sunday in a violent assault that saw one […]
Record number of refugees opt to leave in 2016
Source: Aljazeera Nearly 55,000 migrants and refugees who were not eligible for or were likely to be denied asylum left Germany voluntarily in 2016, up by 20,000 from the number […]
HRH The Prince of Wales presents ‘Thought for the Day’ on BBC Radio 4
Source: Prince Of Wales website In London recently I met a Jesuit priest from Syria. He gave me a graphic account of what life is like for those Christians he was […]
For Uighur exiles, Kashmir is heaven
Source: Aljazeera Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – On a wintry November morning in Srinagar, the largest city in Indian-administered Kashmir, Mohammad Abdullah sits on the carpeted floor in his living room, with […]
For Ahmadiyya/Humanity First Croatia – A Great Event.
By : Zubair Khan. Pictures: Basil Ahmad: Ivan Duzdagic: On 09.12.2016 at 13.00 hours a great humanitarian event started in Hotel Porin Zagreb. It was computer training facility for refugees handing taking over between Humanity First and Red Cross under the auspices of Interior Ministry Croatia. Mr Sead Mulabegovic […]