A BETTER LIFE?: THE HOPES AND HARDSHIPS OF MEXICO IMMIGRATION
OSCAR LOPEZ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the struggle facing refugees living in Mexico…
US faith groups sue Trump administration over refugee resettlement order
RNS Three US faith-based groups that assist with refugee resettlement are suing the Federal Government, arguing a recent executive order granting state and local officials the authority to block refugee resettlement violates federal law and inhibits their ability to practice their faith. HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), Church World Service, and Lutheran […]
ESSAY: CULTIVATE COMMON GROUND REGARDING FAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE
In an excerpt from her new book, ‘Faith in Public Life’, MELISSA ROGERS, former executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and now a visiting professor at Wake Forest University, underlines the important role decisions about faith in public life play in determining the country’s future…
ESSAY: REDUCING THE REFUGEE CAP WILL DECIMATE CRUCIAL FAITH-BASED PARTNERSHIPS
In an article first published by Religion News Service, Rev MICHAEL B CURRY, primate of the Episcopal Church in the US, responding to the announcement of further cuts to the US Refugee Admissions Program, says “turning our backs on refugees contradicts our Christian values and harms our nation”…
VIRTUOUS CIRCLE: RESCUED REFUGEE SEEKS TO SAVE OTHERS
LIN TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from London…
PERSECUTION: TRUMP AIMS TO PROTECT CHRISTIANS BUT SOME AREN’T SURE HE’S HELPING
With the plight of religious minorities around the world in the spotlight following last week’s US State Department summit on the issue, JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports on claims by some advocates and experts that the Trump administration’s policies have, for some, made their situation worse…
ESSAY: FOUR DECADES AFTER SAIGON FELL, WE STILL NEED REFUGEES AS MUCH AS THEY NEED US
Writing from the US in an article first published by Religion News Service, JULIET LIU, pastor and editorial director at Missio Alliance, looks at the “Biblical calling” of welcoming refugees…
REFUGEES: TWO YEARS AFTER TRUMP’S TRAVEL BAN, US FAITH-BASED REFUGEE GROUPS STRUGGLE
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports…
Pittsburgh suspect’s hatred of Jews, HIAS part of larger anti-immigrant surge
RNS No one knows yet why a gunman singled out the Tree of Life Congregation, out of all of Pittsburgh’s synagogues, as the site for a virulently anti-Semitic shooting spree. But Robert Bowers, the man accused of gunning down 11 congregants in a rampage Saturday in the city’s Squirrel Hill neighbourhood, was known to hate Jews […]