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If we win the fight to let refugees into Fortress Britain, the world will take note
If we win the fight to let refugees into Fortress Britain, the world will take note Until she saw her baby, the mother would not eat, drink or move. She sat soaked and trembling, looking out across the Aegean for a rescue boat we knew wouldn’t come. Three hundred people had been on her boat […]
Veterans Talk Refugees and American ideals on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Veterans Talk Refugees and American ideals on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee This week’s episode of TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee takes a look at the divisive language around the Syrian refugee crisis—and the group pundits are pitting against refugees fleeing war: American veterans. They pontificate that America is choosing to aid refugees at the expense […]
Meet the Saudi doctor treating Syrian refugee children
Meet the Saudi doctor treating Syrian refugee children Saudi doctor Mariam Saleh bin Laden, is one of the most prominent women advocates for the Syrian refugee children. She combined her philanthropy and humanitarian work with her favorite hobby which is swimming and was successful in opening the first free medical facility of its kind for […]
European border agency Frontex warns Isis is weaponising refugees
European border agency Frontex warns Isis is weaponising refugees Western security officials are warning the Isis terror group may be trying to manipulate refugees into carrying out terrorist attacks. There are also fears Isis will sneak in trained fighters among the mass movements of people fleeing war, hunger and extreme poverty. Frontex, the European border and coast guard […]
The Guardian view on child refugees: an appeal to give what you can
The Guardian view on child refugees: an appeal to give what you can assan was 14 when he fled Damascus on his own to join family in western Europe. He has made it safely to Athens. Like many of the young refugees, what he most wants is the chance of an education and a future. […]
What happened next: the refugee who came to stay and other stories
The housemates After Helen Pidd and Yasser, her Syrian lodger, wrote about their house-share in January, they were inundated with offers of help, dinner invitations and football tickets. Readers asked how they, too, could host a refugee: an 89-year-old retired academic put up a friend of Yasser’s. Burnage Academy, a boys’ school in south Manchester, […]
Trump’s election win puts U.S. refugee plans in limbo
Arabic language classes are drawing 25 to 30 people a week in preparation for the new arrivals in town. High school students are helping collect furniture and housewares for them, and employers have inquired about giving them jobs. For the past several months, Rutland, Vt., has been getting ready to receive 100 mostly Syrian refugees […]
Helping Refugees ‘as Important as Preaching the Second Coming’
Europe with Trans-European Division communication director Victor Hulbert and reporting on Adventist work in the region. For a list of others stories, follow the links at the end of this story. Seventh-day Adventist pastor Igor Mitrović once believed that the church’s prophetic calling was to proclaim the Second Coming of Jesus. But after working on the […]
British Jews laud success of appeal to help Syrian refugees
Exactly one year after Britain’s World Jewish Relief launched an emergency appeal for refugees from Syria and the region, it announced on Thursday that the campaign has helped over 17,500 refugees in Greece and Turkey. The humanitarian agency said that since last September, it has provided 3,169 children with winter kits including coats and blankets […]
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It has been close to six years since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya faced a deadly genocide by Myanmar’s military and fled the country in search of protection and refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya population has been undergoing persecution, discrimination, arbitrary arrests, and atrocities in Myanmar for over seven decades. Their condition is alarmingly […]
