Sentences with phrase «by refugees who»

Recognize the barriers that some newcomers face to full participation, including the particular barriers faced by refugees who have suffered persecution and long years of deprivation.

«If you include that, the odds of being killed by a refugee who commits terrorist activity in the United States if you're an American is 1.36 billion,» said Soerens.

Not exact matches

Google co-founder and president of Alphabet Sergey Brin, who immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union, joined protesters at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday night to show his personal support for refugees and immigrants and was snapped by Forbes writer Ryan Mac, whose tweet was widely shared.

However, Fox News host Tucker Carlson ran an interview on Friday night's broadcast of «Tucker Carlson Tonight» with documentarian and media personality Ami Horowitz, who presented a clip from a new film documenting alleged violence committed by refugees in Sweden.

Soros was a teenage Jewish refugee who barely escaped persecution by the Nazis, and he is now a philanthropist supporting the cause of refugees and a liberal world order.

The exploitation of refugee youth feeds off broken systems and is demanded by buyers who often have a history of childhood abuse and trauma.

Persecuted Christians on Indonesia's Ambon island face desperate conditions and the world is largely ignoring their plight, said two Americans who recently returned from a visit to the island.As many as 500,000 Christians have been driven from their homes and more than 2,500 have been killed by Muslim «jihad» warriors who have publicly declared they will push all Christians off the island or kill them.Christians are fleeing into the mountains, flooding into refugee camps and clogging ports to wait for the few ships ferrying refugees off the island.

But poverty is aggravating, terrorism by States and rebels who receive weapons from sources and countries where private arms industries flourish is hyper - active, the molested and downgraded gender and bonded labour see no relief in sight and marginalized Third World peoples and the Fourth World of utter destitution are in despair, with a Fifth World of refugees emerging everywhere with nowhere to go, despite Refugee Laws and the Red Cross.

, the Iraqi refugee who arrives in Switzerland is equally loathed by the population, by the mass of Swiss people as the representative of the Iraqi government.

Just 31 percent said they approve of raising the refugee cap, much lower than the 58 percent of black Protestants (two - thirds of whom identify as evangelicals) and 51 percent of overall Americans who approved, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center.

The Arabs of Palestine are mostly the descendants of pilgrims, visitors, and refugees who sought a haven in the sacred land which is the home of the Mosque of the Rock and the Aqsa Mosque which is venerated by all Muslims as second only to the Ka «ba as a sanctuary.

This corresponds to the attitude of those who responded to the refugee by saying they felt no responsibility for social injustice because they were not directly oppressing others.

A refugee is, by definition, a person who, owing to a well - founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the...

The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.

Both of these aspects were expressed by the second group of parishioners who responded to the refugee; they felt their social responsibility (and maybe needed that feeling reinforced) but didn't know what to do.

As several Christian organizations point out — including one actually approved by the State Department to be a part of the resettlement program — most refugees who come to the U.S. are here to be reunited or connected with family members already in the U.S.

How can one «criticize» the experience of the victim of domestic abuse or incest, the child refugee who has seen his family slaughtered by the national police, or the mother who must watch her children starve?

The refugees, who are residents of the historically Christian Nineveh, were terrorized by ISIS back in August 2014.

By valuing the stories, dreams and contributions of refugees, churches and small groups are extending the gifts of friendship, belonging, and acceptance to those who are entering an unfamiliar world.

I've been especially encouraged by the words and actions of Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the SBC, who took a trip to the border last week and who wrote a really powerful challenge to Christians regarding their response to the child refugees.

Arsal was recaptured by the Lebanese Army, but if Lebanon's Bekaa Valley were to fall to jihadists it would mean disaster for thousands of refugees who have sought sanctuary there.

Otter - Pass still has deep ties in the refugee community and have been inspired first hand by the dads and moms we know who gave up everything — their homes, their extended families, their entire lives — to save their children from war and persecution.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

After fleeing violence at the age of just 10, Rose Nathike Lokonyen — who is now 23 — spent years in a large refugee camp where she trained by running barefoot.

A meeting where Christians could come together and learn from, and be equipped by, some of the leading voices who are involved in caring for refugees.

I also remember discovering during one Easter vigil the almost physical distress of some Eastern Rite Palestinians among us who, as refugees driven from their homeland, were affronted by our incessant imagery of the people of Israel despoiling the Egyptians, and seizing vines and trees they never planted and cisterns others had dug.

If you'd like to learn more about the reality of refugee life, check out this series of articles by my friends, Andrew and Becca Ulasich, who recently spent three months meeting with refugees.

A refugee from Hitler's continental New Order who was then living in England, Koestler tried to tell the world about the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi regime.

Often they found the way barred by the elders of the village who claimed that the village was too poor or its land too scarce to support the urban refugees.

As Right To Play spearheads the handoff of responsibility to locals, such as a 500 - person team in Liberia led by a former refugee who first encountered SDP in a displacement camp, Kidd credits Koss with leading a move away from «a top - down, we - know - what - you - need approach with First World volunteers.»

The bombings and truck attacks have not been the works of refugees, they have almost all been done by European citizens who have been self - radicalized or recruited by ISIS.

Eoin, Ken and Ciaran discuss the ongoing Arsenal crack - up, Dejan Lovren's refugee story and the neurological problems suffered by old players who headed a lot of balls.

The shop sells fair - trade coffee, accompanied by baked goods provided by a local non-profit that employs women who are overcoming trauma and hardship, such as trafficking, addiction or being a refugee.

The event was hosted by the FFFAD (Friends, Families and Feminists Against Detention) and this protest was mainly filled with moms and it was to bring awareness to a Somali refugee who needed help.

Thus, fourthly, some Member States raise point that while the burden - sharing is both legally and morally acceptable (IOW: we will take refugees, of course), the fact is that every country has every right to apply laws as laid down in treaties and can not be bound by their interpretation or suspension by other Member States (IOW: but we will decide who is a refugee and who is not).

In Paris, around 60 people who were suspected of demonstrating for the rights of refugees are reported to have been called in by police and now face up to six months in jail.

When one race of citizens feels as though their lives don't matter; when refugees successfully escape the horrors of war only to be further brutalized on foreign soil; when the already - traumatized victims of conflict are violated by international peacekeepers who were sent to ensure their safety and wellbeing, then we as leaders, we as a world community must stop being silent and start taking action.

They got respectable front bench politicians on board - people like Michael Gove, who are more motivated by arguments on sovereignty than they are by frenzied talk of borders and refugee waves.

With the repatriation of all its citizens now impossible — particularly the most vocal opposition activists who left Rwanda in the post-1998 period and were thus unaffected (in theory) by the Clause's implementation — the Rwandan government shifted its approach to generously support a range of other initiatives and durable solutions in refugee - hosting states, for example the provision of passports to Rwandan refugees abroad from visiting delegations.

Meanwhile Britain should continue its innovative work around accountability towards the conflict - with pioneering projects sending specialist teams of lawyers and police to interview and chronicle war crimes by engaging with refugees who've fled the country.

Her view is supported by Yasir, an Eritrean refugee who is now pursuing an undergraduate degree in bio-medical sciences in York University.

In a session among Democratic senate candidates held by the Chicago Tribune to determine who the paper would endorse in the Democratic race to run against Kirk, Duckworth was asked about ensuring refugees would not pose a security risk.

A new report published by Médicins Sans Frontières has identified an urgent deterioration in the care available for vulnerable refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos, with particular issues facing asylum seekers who have experienced torture or violence.

Our next piece examines claims by Paddy Ashdown that Syrian children who are brought to the UK under Cameron's refugee programme will be deported when they turn 18.

Bangladesh and Myanmar have signed a deal for the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, who have taken shelter in the border town of Cox's Bazar after a brutal crackdown by the military.

The reports had quoted Onyeama as saying that «there was a request for the extradition of some of the Turks in Nigeria who have been given asylum to remain in Nigeria and recognised by the UN as political refugees and the Turkish government requested that we extradite some of them.»

Among those who will meet with and be blessed by the Pope during his visit on Sept. 25th are day laborers from Westchester, immigrant mothers from Yonkers and East Harlem, unaccompanied youth fleeing persecution in Central America, and refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

The Utica City School District settled a lawsuit over its treatment of young refugees, who, the suit filed last year by NYCLU charged, were being excluded from the city's lone high school because of their age and because they did not speak English.

The global refugee crisis and there are 65 million refugees across the world that crisis is a challenge, much of which is on the borders of Europe and that challenge can be met by co-ordinating with our European neighbours, both to crack down on the people smugglers who put men, women and children to sea in unseaworthy vessels.

These are parents and children who have been recognised as refugees by the British government.