Embracing the stranger: Milwaukee church gives refugees a welcome that has become a way of life
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that on how Eastbrook Church is engaging with refugees, immigrants and international students…
Stay of removal issued for three immigrants who resided in US ‘sanctuary’
RNS Three immigrants who have resided in houses of worship to avoid deportation were granted one-year stays of removal this week, a move faith-based immigrant rights advocates framed as a “Christmas gift” years in the making. Among the immigrants is Jeanette Vizguerra, who has resided at First Unitarian Society of Denver since spring 2019. According […]
Guatemala receives bodies of 15 migrants killed in Mexico trailer accident
Guatemala City Reuters The bodies of 15 people killed when a trailer carrying migrants overturned in Mexico were returned to Guatemala on Thursday and reunited with families who will lay them to rest as the year ends. In all, 56 people were killed when a truck packed with migrants flipped over in the state of […]
Churches welcome Afghan refugees in Brazil
São Paulo, Brazil While Brazil may not be a preferred destination for Afghan citizens who have left their homeland after the Taliban assumed power in August, a number of them have found refuge in the South American country where Christian churches have been playing a central role in the process of integrating them to the […]
Nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico were kidnapped, raped or assaulted – report
Washington DC, US Reuters Nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico since January due to a US border policy have been kidnapped, raped, trafficked or assaulted, according to a report by a human rights group released on Tuesday. The report, by New York-based Human Rights First, documents cases of migrants and asylum seekers stuck in Mexico […]
Essay: How the church can be a better evangelical witness to displaced people
In an article first published on Religion News Service, EUGENE CHO, editor of a recent anthology of pastoral, theological and refugee perspectives on the church’s evangelical mission, looks at how the church can become “a shining light of joy for the suffering and hope for the hopeless”…
Mexico’s vaccines plan raises fears migrants will miss out
Mexico City Thomson Reuters Foundation Migrants and Indigenous people in Mexico risk missing out on the coronavirus vaccine because the system currently requires an identification number not everyone in the country has, human rights groups have warned. Authorities in the country, which has been hard hit by the pandemic, last week invited over-60s to sign […]
With new executive order in US, this immigrant is leaving church sanctuary after 3.5 years
Durham, North Carolina, US RNS Jose Chicas, a native of El Salvador who has been living in church sanctuary for more than three years, will move out Friday after President Joe Biden signed an executive order temporarily halting the deportation of undocumented immigrants. Chicas, 55, has been living in an old clapboard house next door […]
Some big, early shifts in US immigration policy expected under Biden
Washington DC, US AP Some dramatic moves on immigration are expected in the early days of the Biden administration. Joe Biden will likely use executive orders to reverse some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial actions, rolling back moves that were a central feature of his administration and important to his base. The Biden administration […]
New life for shrinking communities: Europe’s dying villages woo immigrants to survive
SOPHIE DAVIES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how immigrants are bringing new life to struggling communities in Europe…