The church helped me when I was a refugee. It's called to do the same today.

The church helped me when I was a refugee. It's called to do the same today.

(RNS) — In the late 1970s, the church sent a missionary pastor to the refugee camp in the Philippines where my parents were living to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. A little over a year later, the church sponsored our family to the United States for refugee resettlement. The church gave us a chance at a new life.  I was born in that refugee camp at the most traumatic time in my family’s history. I’ve seen pictures of the refugee camp and have…

5 Times the Church Advocated for Refugees and Immigrants in U.S. History

Over the past year, the number of displaced people exceeded 122 million. That includes refugees, asylum seekers and millions of people displaced within their home country by conflict. It’s the highest number of displaced people ever recorded in history. And yet, amid this urgent global crisis, obstacles to caring for the displaced have arisen like never before. In the U.S., refugees and other immigrants are facing dire needs after the current ad…