Tag: refugees

There are big discussions about immigration and refugees happening across the U.S. and around the world. People are taking to social media, blogs, columns, talking face-to-face, and joining protests to be active in the discussion and resistance. But how do we discuss such difficult and often delicate subjects with our children?

In response to President Donald Trump's executive order suspending refugee admissions, which inspired mass protests over the weekend, Bishop Thomas Daly of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane released the following statement

World Relief Spokane is one of nine non-profit resettlement agencies in the country, taking around 600 refugees a year.

Christians have responsibility to accept new Spokane neighbors, speaker says

A Pullman church is planning a concert this weekend to raise money for World Relief Spokane.

On June 26, churches across the country will mark National Refugee Sunday, saying prayers and raising money to help the many people fleeing conflicts around the world. This is the first in a three-part series that looks at evangelical Christians’ complex views of the global migrant crisis as well as how refugees are reacting to evangelical outreach.

Rich Stearns, head of World Vision, the evangelical relief and development group, says Christians should follow a model pioneered by Chaldean churches in Iraq’s Kurdistan region in which displaced people are treated as “guests” not refugees.