Syrian refugees $250m extra for schools
Source: BBC An extra $250m (£174m) emergency funding will be provided for educating Syrian refugee children this year, the UN global education envoy Gordon Brown has announced in New […]
Drowned Syrian toddler’s family reunited in Canada
Source: CNN (CNN)Relatives of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, the toddler who tragically drowned off the Turkish coast earlier this year, have arrived safely in Canada as refugees. There were emotional scenes at […]
Over a million migrants and refugees have reached Europe this year, says IOM
Source: The Guardian More than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means in 2015, the International Organisation for Migration has announced, in what constitutes the continent’s biggest […]
Merkel Says Germany Will Take In Fewer Migrants
Source: Time Germany will reduce the influx of migrants coming in, Chancellor Angela Merkel promised her conservative party on Monday, insisting that she’s still confident her approach will work and […]
Canadian children performed the same song for refugees that was sung to Mohamed when he sought refuge
Source: i100 The first plane of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto late on Thursday, and Canada has wasted no time in welcoming them. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at the […]
Meet the Refugee Who Named Her Baby After Angela Merkel
Source: Time The young Iraqi asylum seeker Hind Almahdawi was nine-months pregnant when she arrived in Germany Hind Almahdawi was exhausted. She was about nine months pregnant and had just […]
First Government Plane Carrying Refugees Arrives in Canada
Source: Time (TORONTO) — The first Canadian government plane carrying Syrian refugees arrived in Toronto late Thursday where they were greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is pushing forward […]
Defying the governor, Indianapolis archbishop takes in Syrian refugees
Source: Crux Despite objections by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis has decided to help resettle a Syrian refugee family. The family — parents and two children — […]
At Heart Of Refugee-Resettlement Debate, A Rift Between Church And State
Source: NPR The resettling of Syrian refugees in the U.S. has become a political and religious flashpoint. On Friday, for instance, Texas dropped its request for a federal court to […]
Texas backs down from effort to block Syrian refugees
Source: Fox News Texas backed down Friday from efforts to block six Syrian refugees from resettling in Dallas after the Obama administration reiterated in federal court that the state had […]
Providing a Future for Millions of Syrian Children
Source: Huffington Post Carolyn S. Miles President & CEO, Save the Children It takes only a few hours on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos to understand the […]
Why are Lebanon’s Palestinians leaving for Europe?
Source: Aljazeera Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp, Lebanon – The once-bustling main street of Lebanon’s most over-populated Palestinian refugee camp is noticeably empty. Storefronts, where dozens of chain-smoking young men perched […]
Faith-based groups earn millions on refugee loan commissions
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) Faith-based agencies that resettle refugees in America stand to gain more than a clear conscience if the United States — after what is expected to […]
After uproar, German town warms to refugees who took over church
Source: Reuters When Daniela Handwerk looked out of her window earlier this month and saw the church across the street being emptied out and turned into a refugee shelter, she […]
Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S
“Anne Frank could be a 77-year-old woman living in Boston today – a writer” Elahe IzadI A picture of Anne Frank lies in front of her memorial stone Getty Many have noted the historical parallels between the current debate over Syrians seeking refuge in the United States and the plight […]
5 facts about the Muslim population in Europe
Source: Pew Research Center Recent killings in Paris as well as the arrival of hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim refugees in Europe have drawn renewed attention to the continent’s […]
There’s Nothing ‘Christian’ About Denying Refuge To The Least Among Us
Source: Huffington Post By Suraj Patel Entrepreneur, Adjunct Professor of Ethics @NYUStern, @WhiteHouse Advance Associate, NYC. Last night, I was discussing the Syrian Refugee debate with my brother on our […]
Why the question of Christian vs. Muslim refugees has become so incredibly divisive
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein, is the Post’s religion reporter, where she reports on the busy marketplace of American religion. Christians make up a tiny percentage of the Syrian refugees […]
What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II
Source: TheWashington Post The results of the poll by the useful Twitter account @HistOpinion were published in the pages of Fortune magazine in July 1938. Fewer than 5 percent of Americans surveyed […]
McCain slams Cruz’s call for religious test for refugees
Source: The Hill Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday panned the idea of favoring Christian refugees from Syria over Muslims, delivering a rebuttal to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a GOP […]