Sentences with phrase «small number of refugees»

Europe should accept a small number of refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean in boats, but only if they're Christian, Nigel Farage insisted today.

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But this growth and the change that has resulted from large numbers of refugees converting to Christianity can present challenges for smaller churches.

Although conversion results are unknown — only Christians who convert to Islam are news items — foreign church funds do sustain the social service projects for the refugees, whether Muslim Afghans or the smaller numbers of» Iraqi and Iranian Christian refugees.

But compared with the number of refugees in other countries around the world — and considering the resources of the United States — it's remarkably small.

Facing difficulty in finding jobs or housing in Europe, a small but growing number of refugees are voluntarily heading back to the Middle East, the Associated Press reports.

The small island north of Scotland has just over 8,000 people residing there with a very small Muslim community, including a growing number of Syrian refugees.

I work in a small town, so the number of refugees we see is manageable, not the massive arrival of groups like it is in the capital or other major cities.

Olmert also offered to accept a small number of Palestinian refugees and descendents back into Israel, but created a fund to monetarily compensate refugees or descendants who could not return, in accordance with UN Resolution 194, which called for compensation for refugees who could not return to Israel.

He estimated that a small number — between five and 10 — refugees would qualify, and that they would all compete under the Olympic flag, and be lodged at the Olympic Village with the rest of the athletes.

The second is the on shore program, which covers the much smaller number of people who arrive in Australia and then apply to be recognised as refugees.