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Uganda hosts one refugee for every 160 residents. That’s more than seven times the burden the U.S. bears.
As many as 13.6 million people have been displaced by the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. What can American Christians do?
Instead of seeking the ability to deport Central American children faster, Obama should treat this situation as the refugee crisis it is.
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.
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.