Over five million people have fled Syria since 2011 and just under 21,000 have been accepted into the United States. ‘This Is Home’ looks into the U.S. resettlement process.
Refugees
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In France, Caritas helps asylum seekers sleeping in Calais woods
This is the last leg of a journey that started in Eritrea, Afghanistan or Iraq.
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UN speakers decry detention for vulnerable migrant, refugee children
U.N. agencies estimate more than 65 million people are currently stateless or forcibly displaced from their countries and 51 percent of them are children.
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Cardinal Tobin: Christians must recognize humanity of immigrants, refugees
“We forget where we came from, not just as the early Christian church, but also as a country.”
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Jesuit Refugee Service report reveals high level of homelessness among London’s refugees
J.R.S. contends that it is deliberate government policy to make life for refugees as difficult as possible.
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James Martin, S.J.: Why we should welcome people from the countries Trump just insulted
Fr. James Martin, S.J., answers President Donald Trump’s question about why we should welcome people from poor, war-torn countries.
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One thing you can do to support migrants and refugees
President Trump’s latest racist remarks have many of asking: Who are we? What do we stand for? Who do we welcome and why?
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New Trump refugee policies could close more than 20 Catholic Charities resettlement offices
As many as 17 to 23 Catholic Charities offices around the country are now confronting the end of programs that have been successfully assimilating thousands of refugees into U.S. society for decades
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Catholics mark National Migration Week as threats to migrants mount
The undocumented “remind us who we were called to be, not only as a nation of immigrants but as a people of faith.”
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Pope Francis’ New Year priorities: Refugees, youths, trips and more Curia reform
Pope Francis, newly 81, will begin 2018 with a focus on Mary and on migrants and refugees.