Tag: refugee

Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network will host its ninth Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Day in Olympia to push immigrant justice legislation supporting Spokane and statewide nonprofits.

Spokane refugee advocates describe fear, funding cuts and legal limbo as churches and nonprofits step up amid ongoing immigration uncertainty.

FāVS News to host talk on building bridges for refugee and immigrant neighbors on April 27 as part of their Uniting the Inland Northwest event.

“When a stranger sojourns in your land, you shall do him no wrong. The stranger shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself" (Lev. 19:33-34). Some have called this “radical hospitality,” and this moral imperative has been enshrined in international and American law.

Eleven years ago, Pingala Dhital, a Bhutanese refugee, came to the U.S. after spending 18 years in a Nepal refugee camp, seeking to give a better life for her family.

“A quarter billion people,” The Christian Science Monitor noted last year, “have either fled disasters or migrated to escape poverty.” How should our nation respond?