By Hazel Torres When thousands of Christians fled Iraq to escape the brutality of Islamist extremists who have occupied their land, they must have thought that a better life free from the shackles of fear and bondage awaited them. They were devastatingly mistaken. These Christian refugees Continue Reading
Why The Church Must Love The Refugee
By Scott Gustafson The global refugee crisis reached a peak this year, and is still climbing. At this time in human history there are more refugees and displaced people than at any other time on planet earth. 65.3 million or 1/113 human beings are displaced from their homes (UNHCR). Speaking Continue Reading
Evangelicals Ignore G.O.P. by Embracing Syrian Refugees
By RICHARD FAUSSET and ALAN BLINDER SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 MARIETTA, Ga. — William Stocks, a white, Alabama-born, Republican-leaning member of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, arrived at the tiny apartment of a Syrian refugee family on a Wednesday night after work. He was wearing a green-striped golf Continue Reading
Number of Refugees to Europe Surges to Record 1.3 Million in 2015
BY PHILLIP CONNOR A record 1.3 million migrants applied for asylum in the 28 member states of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 – nearly double the previous high water mark of roughly 700,000 that was set in 1992 after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet Continue Reading