refugees
Locking up kids
Obama's budget includes more money to detain undocumented children. At the largest family detention center, the average child is age six.
Refuge in Uganda: A poor nation opens its doors
Uganda hosts one refugee for every 160 residents. That’s more than seven times the burden the U.S. bears.
Refugee crisis
As many as 13.6 million people have been displaced by the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. What can American Christians do?
Children at the door
Instead of seeking the ability to deport Central American children faster, Obama should treat this situation as the refugee crisis it is.
Welcoming these kids is the least we can do
Taking in refugees, giving asylum—these are things that generous people from a better place do for helpless people from a worse place. But we aren’t actually better.
I was a stranger: Welcoming Burmese refugees
In the fall of 2006, when Lake Avenue Baptist Church in Rochester, New York, began welcoming refugees from Burma, we had no idea what we were getting into. In the spring of 2007 there were 30 refugees from Burma in Rochester; by 2007 there were 200, and by now there are almost 400, with many more expected. Rochester is a microcosm of what is happening quietly across this continent and in many other nations.