by Samar Mansour-Samawi | Apr 11, 2017 | Opinion
It was not an easy task to write this article. The feelings of love, compassion and pain have overwhelmed my heart. Life in regions from Jordan to Turkey to Greece is getting worse and has changed the daily lives of millions of children. The feelings of love,...
by Mark Glanville | Apr 5, 2017 | Opinion
The global refugee crisis is “not just a crisis in numbers; it is also a crisis of solidarity,” Ban Ki Moon, former United Nations secretary general, stated in the U.N.’s “Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2015” report. Jesus taught...
by Mark Glanville | Apr 4, 2017 | Opinion
We are living in an unprecedented period of global displacement – the highest level on record, according to the UNHCR (U.N. Refugee Agency) – with more than 65 million people around the world who have been forced from home. That’s a number almost...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Mar 30, 2017 | Opinion
Immigration has been called “the oldest and most persistent theme” in U.S. history. Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager, two prominent 20th-century historians, offered this observation in their book, “The Growth of the American...
by Kathryn Kraft | Mar 28, 2017 | Opinion
There are presently more than 63.9 million “persons of concern” in the world. This designation includes refugees, people awaiting recognition as refugees and people who have fled their homes but not sought refuge in another country (internally displaced...
