Stories tagged with: refugees

• U.S. urged to open doors to Christian refugees, asylum seekers

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, July 10, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Christians fleeing religious persecution abroad are increasingly denied access to safety in the U.S., according to a new report urging the Trump administration to reverse the trend.

  The U.S. is on track to accept 90 percent fewer Christian refugees in 2020 than five years earlier from countries where Christians are most persecuted, and is considering changes to eligibility requirements for asylum seekers that would drastically reduce their entry here, Open Doors USA and World Relief said in its joint report released today (July 10). Read More

• Trauma-healing ministry reaches refugees in Uganda

  by Grace Thornton/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Thursday, July 09, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  ARUA DISTRICT, Uganda (BP) -- The South Sudanese people who live in the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in Uganda know Deborah* is an outsider. They can see it on her skin. She's Liberian, with lighter skin than theirs -- a fact that wasn't erased by the years she lived in South Sudan married to a South Sudanese man.

  But the scars on her heart are the same as theirs -- they can see that too. Read More

• IMB missionaries use trauma care resources to help refugees, start churches

  by Tobin Perry/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Tuesday, July 07, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  BOGOTÁ, Colombia (BP) -- It's tough to overstate the trauma the Venezuelan people have experienced over the last decade. The price of oil, the country's chief export, cratered. Hyperinflation at one point hit 10 million percent. The country's power grid failed, leading to massive power shortages. An unpopular dictator defied an election. More than 4.6 million people fled the country from 2016 to 2019. Read More

• Baptist leaders call for unified care for displaced

  by Brandon Porter/Kentucky Today, posted Wednesday, February 26, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- The world is on the move. Millions of people live far from their homes but are able to stay connected with their family through the use of technology. Because of this, leaders from a number of Southern Baptist entities, state conventions, local associations and churches believe the time is right for a strategic plan to reach these people on the move.

  "There's a growing desire among Southern Baptist Convention entities to communicate more and collaborate better when it comes to serving displaced people," said Trent DeLoach, Send Relief coordinator and pastor at Clarkston International Bible Church in Clarkston, Ga. Read More

• Adoniram Judson's spiritual descendants in Massachusetts

  by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, December 09, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  WORCESTER, Mass. (BP) -- It has been 10 years since a group of refugees from Myanmar (formerly Burma) showed up on the doorsteps of Worcester Baptist Church in Worcester, Mass., wearing traditional Burmese clothing and having very little else. They had shown up at the local Southern Baptist church because they were Baptists and wanted a place to worship. The church welcomed the refugees into their worship service and into their lives over the next decade.

  The refugees knew little about the United States when they arrived, but they knew one name -- a man who had left the state of Massachusetts almost 200 years earlier. Read More

• Refugee connects with Arab evangelist on social media

  by Madeline Arthington, posted Tuesday, July 09, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  EUROPE (BP) -- Brahim*, now living in a European refugee camp, left his North African country in search of a better life far from the war and desperation of his home.

  Only 22 years old, Brahim doesn't own much. But he does have a phone, and that is how he first encountered the Gospel. Read More

• Sudan crisis: Door is 'wide open' for the Gospel

  by Timothy Cockes, posted Monday, July 08, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  CLARKSTON, Ga. (BP) -- Despite continuing protests and violence in the nation of Sudan, Abraham Deng sees God opening a door for the church to bear fruit, particularly among Muslims.

  Deng, who came to America as a refugee from what is now South Sudan, frequently visits both his hometown area in South Sudan as well as visiting his wife and three children in the nation of Sudan as they await approval to move to the United States. Read More

• Refugees 'people that need help,' simulation shows

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, May 22, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Imagine having to either flee with the one child in your arms or run amid gunfire in search of your other children perhaps already killed by terrorists attacking your community.

  Brian Moore was one of about 100 others who encountered such a decision May 15 at Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tenn. -- but that experience was only a simulated exercise of loss. Read More

• Refugee crisis: IMB's Chitwood goes to Capitol Hill

  by Julie McGowan, posted Friday, May 17, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON, D.C.(BP) -- Only days after witnessing Venezuelan refugees' plight on the Colombia border, and mere weeks after praying with refugees in Uganda, International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood traveled to Capitol Hill Thursday (May 16) to discuss the global refugee crises with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

  Chitwood and John Brady, IMB's vice president of Global Engagement, along with their spouses, met with Sen. McConnell, (R-Ky.) a longtime Southern Baptist elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 from Louisville, Ky., in the Majority Leader's office in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Read More

• IMB's Chitwood encourages refugees, missionaries

  by Shawn Hendricks, posted Thursday, April 04, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  ARUA, UGANDA (BP) -- With only one arm, Agnes carries a five-gallon jug of water on her head in a refugee camp near the South Sudan border in northern Uganda. On her own, she's a single mom with two children to care for and has to make an hour-long trek to a well because it's the closest one to her house. Read More