Source: The Local Prosecutors in Frankfurt are investigating two people for making up a crime, after they claimed in a national newspaper that dozens of Arab men rioted and sexually assaulted women at New Year. The claims first appeared in Bild newspaper on February 6th, which described the men as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]