syrian civil war
Challenges continue after war ends, says Syrian priest and peacemaker Alexi Chehadeh
Chehadeh leads the largest local NGO in Syria, serving 2.5 million people a year.
The U.S. needs to accept more refugees
There's one clear way the world can help the Syrian people. The Trump administration is doing the opposite.
Airstrikes won’t solve the crisis in Syria
American military action hasn’t helped in the Middle East before. Why would it now?
Athletes without borders
In Rio, refugees will compete under an international flag. Maybe this will inspire new reflection on the purpose of a nation.
When the Greek islands were hospitable to strangers
Recently the online world has been filled with images of people in desperate conditions, images not from Pakistan or Syria but from the Greek islands closest to Turkey: Chios, Lesbos, Leros. One picture showed a migrant raft landing near sunbathing tourists on Kos, an island I once knew well. It was a way station on my yearly visits to the nearby island of Patmos, where St. John was once a refugee himself. I went there to visit another immigrant to Greece: a spiritual poet named Robert Lax, who was Thomas Merton’s best friend.
Loving the refugee
The wrenching dislocations of World War II were often pitilessly ignored by the world. What story will be told of our time, and of us?
Refugee crisis
As many as 13.6 million people have been displaced by the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. What can American Christians do?
Deciding on Syria
In the face of huge unanswered questions and with the unpredictable outcome of any act of war, U.S. military action against Syria is unwarranted.
Christians in exile: Syrians take refuge in Lebanon
Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon in massive numbers. The situation threatens to overwhelm a country already struggling to maintain a delicate peace.