Sentences with phrase «founded by refugees»

His college was founded by refugees from Oxford from the Black death.

Actually America was founded by refugees running away from two giant god - corporations, the Catholic Church and the Church of England.

Not exact matches

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court found the Syrian refugee ban by Indiana governor and GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence was based on a «nightmare scenario» of Syrian terrorists posing as refugees to gain US entry.

But recent research by the libertarian Cato Institute found that «the chance of an American being murdered in a terrorist attack caused by a refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion per year.»

Suspended by Arabella Dorman is a collection of hundreds of items of refugee clothing found mainly on beaches on the Greek island of Lesbos and garments left behind in the camps of Calais.

We find it easier to be fascinated by the possibilities of space travel than to be distressed by the plight of millions of refugees living in misery on our own planet.

Shocked as we have been by well attested stories of unspeakable tortures and degradation's, by the mass exterminations of the gas chamber, and by the living death of such places as Belsen and Buchenwald, many people find it difficult to react with proper indignation to contemporary cruelties such as the Communist slave camps in Siberia, or the callous indifference of most people to the plight of millions of refugees.

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...

This week, we take a close look at the refugee ministries of World Relief, a well - respected agency founded by the National Association of Evangelicals.

Today we continue our look at the refugee ministries of World Relief, a well - respected agency founded by the National Association of Evangelicals.

The principles of the plan: On the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 242, Israel will withdraw to the June 4, 1967, borders; the Palestinians will establish their independent state, with Arab Jerusalem as its capital; and an agreed - upon and just solution to 1948 Palestinian refugees problem will be found by the sides on the basis of UN General Assembly Resolution 194 of 1949.

A new study has found that Christian churches are more likely to fear refugees displaced by war, ISIS and poverty than they are actually to help them in any way.

Interviewers at this understaffed agency are not necessarily sympathetic to refugees, many of whom are frightened, are intimidated by officials, find it difficult to communicate, and have no legal representation and no right of appeal.

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.

Human Rights Watch found that refugees were «threatened, beaten, and their property looted by Tanzanian officials, soldiers, and police officers or militia groups».

Local elites, for example, found themselves refugees, supplanted by an alien power.

This frustrates the right of refugees and British citizens to live with their chosen partner and found a family unless such modest earnings could be supplemented by any reasonably substantial savings, third party support or the future earnings or the spouse seeking admission.»

Formerly known as the Somali Bantu Community Association (SBCA), RISE was founded by Somali Bantu refugees in 2004 to ease the transition of other members of the resettled Somali Bantu community living in Onondaga County.

Digital games can effectively teach refugee children much - needed skills — including a new language, cognitive skills, and coding — while also improving their mental health, finds research by New York University, the City University of New York, and Turkey's Bahcesehir University.

In recent focus groups with Syrian refugee mothers in Lebanon, for example, Pluess and his colleagues found that a popular ingredient in many psychosocial programs — a concept called «internal locus of control» — was problematic among people anchored by religion.

Sand flies, not previously found in Lebanon, have apparently now been introduced by refugees from Syria, and there is concern that they will become established there and continue to threaten the refugee and local populations.

For men and women combined, we found evidence that the rate of non-affective psychosis in refugees compared with migrants varied by region of origin (table 3 ⇓; likelihood ratio test P = 0.05).

Inspired by refugee women doing embroidery in Lebanon, Zeina Abou Chaaban founded Palestyle in 2009 to help give these displaced women regular work.

As Ray and his kids commandeer the only working vehicle in town and light out for Boston with the aim of finding the kids» mother, they run up against wave after wave of human refugees, panicked and herded by the towering alien craft like so much cattle to the slaughter.

Instead I felt constantly exercised by the vaguely patronising attitude it adopted to its protagonists, a group of young Sudanese refugees who find themselves all at sea when they emigrate to America.

However, Aryan is found healing and floating in the air by Stern (Merab Ninidze) a corrupt refugee camp doctor with a tragic past.

Hela's cowardly executioner found his courage and helped to defend the fleeing Asgardian refugees — only to get stabbed by his former boss.

These are only surpassed by Palestinians which are over 5 million refugees, the largest group in the world, who find themselves under the mandate of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which it should not be forgotten that some of those Palestinians who were refugees already in Syria, are becoming refugees for the second time in their lives.

’27 For that reason, the RPF government has been arguing that those who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, regardless of their well - founded and reasonable fear to repatriate, «have a dark, ugly past to hide and are running away from prosecution» but not persecution.28 Whereas it can not be denied that some genocide perpetrators remain at large, it can strongly be argued that a list of Hutu refugees who were suspected of having committed genocide crimes was established and thus handed out by the RPF government to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

Pew researchers found that the highest number of refugees relocated to the U.S. last year came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by Syria, Burma, Iraq and Somalia.

Given that the company is now owned by Lamborghini, it should come as no surprise to find that the car looks a little bit like a refugee from Sant» Agata.

Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near - death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors» reports of recent immigrants and refugees.

In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered.

B - Mor is a rigorously ordered labor settlement founded in what used to be Baltimore by refugees from impossibly polluted New China.

Ten year - old Lina lives in a refugee tent camp in Pakistan and has not worn shoes for two years, so when she finds a single sandal left by relief workers, she is overjoyed.

A Disappearance in Damascus chronicles the real - life story of Ahlam, an Iraqi refugee who is abducted by the Syrian secret police, and the attempts by the author, Deborah Campbell, to find her.

COROZAL Founded by Mexican refugees in 1850, Corozal is now a sleepy semi-Mexican, semiCaribbean seaside town.

The village of San Pedro, the major population centre on the island, was founded in 1848 by Mestizo refugees from the Guerra de Castas in Yucatan.

The refugees who founded San Pedro were among those who fled the Province of Bacalar sometime before the city fell to an army of Maya insurgents, the Santa Cruz Maya, led by Generalissimo Venancio Puc.

Six artists of color use performance, photography, textiles, and more to take on stories such as modern - day gentrification in Bed - Stuy, traced through an amateur kung fu film found at the former home of a theater frequented by Reverend Al Sharpton; the Syrian refugee crisis and conflict, mixing media coverage and first - person accounts; and the actual Revolutionary War's 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, conducted by a woman of color.

Dreamlike, we follow the militia along worn jungle paths, find midwives in refugee tents, accompany priests up church aisles, roll corpses over by the roadside, and watch persistent hands methodically pull apart a lump of dough, flesh - like in its pink disguise.

Artist Statement «The drawing by a 13 - year - old Syrian refugee girl shows the moment that her mother came into her house to find her son dead in the bed, riddled with bullets...

... These findings will not be welcomed by those who promote biofuel production as a means of combating what they call «the threats posed by «climate refugees» and «climate conflict» to international security,»....

Invariably questions of credit are involved and quite frequently claims of the refugee applicant are resolved substantially by reference to findings made as to credibility.

It also finds, contrary to what has been said by the MoJ and LAA to date, that refugee family reunion is in fact in scope.

Persons may not be eligible to have their claim determined if they: have been recognized as a Convention refugees or protected persons by another country to which they can return; have already been granted protected person status in Canada; arrived via the Canada - United States border; are not admissible to Canada on security grounds, or because of criminal activity or human rights violations; made a previous refugee claim that was found to be ineligible for referral to determine refugee status; made a previous refugee claim that was rejected; or abandoned or withdrew a previous refugee claim.

The organization was founded by a group of volunteers who came from immigrant and refugee background.

The Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society (VIRCS) is a non-profit organization that was founded in November 1989 by three former refugees.

Similarly, in Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care v Canada (Attorney General), 2014 FC 651, the Federal Court found that the government's cuts to Interim Federal Health funding for refugee claimants and other persons seeking protection from Canada amounted to cruel and unusual treatment under s. 12 of the Charter, and was not justified by s. 1.

Whilst emotional and behavioural distress was experienced by children who had lost both parents, these children were found to function better than accompanied refugee children on measures of cognition and language.