Sentences with phrase «war refugees in»

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The current refugee crisis in the Middle East is the worst since World War II.

She took a much - criticized, leading role in opening the doors to refugees escaping war in Syria.

In what's described as the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II, Maurer called on European and Gulf countries to step up their efforts to support the region.

(In response to the influx of Syrians fleeing the civil war, some European countries have effectively shut down routes refugees commonly use to travel beyond Greece, leaving them in limboIn response to the influx of Syrians fleeing the civil war, some European countries have effectively shut down routes refugees commonly use to travel beyond Greece, leaving them in limboin limbo.)

In the past couple of decades, the world has been racked with wars and other conflicts that have dislocated the lives of 60 million people, making them refugees.

China has started building refugee camps on the North Korean border, in what the New York Times interprets as a sign of real fears of a war between the rogue state and the U.S..

A number of factors have contributed, including concerns about dropping oil prices, slowing growth in China and geopolitical tensions (among them, concerns over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis and ISIS attacks).

After the war, Canada accepted 60,000 refugees (1979 - 80), opened an embassy in Hanoi (1994...

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

More than half (54 %) of the 1.3 million refugees applying for asylum in Europe in 2015 came from the war - torn, Muslim - majority countries of Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

Rabbi, if only I knew our suffering was paving the way for the Messiah,» cried a Jewish refugee to R. Hayyim Soloveitchik of Brest - Litovsk shortly before his death in World War I — era Warsaw.

that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

More than half of Americans (53 %) said that not accepting refugees would be the best approach the US could take regarding those fleeing civil war in Syria, according to a poll Bloomberg conducted from November 16 — 17 of 628 Americans.

-- Also I grew up a child of refugees and in post war Germany and, therefore, have a few first hand stories and experiences.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

The unrelenting war in Syria has caused a massive humanitarian refugee crisis, where families have been forced to flee the conflict: Almost half of the country's entire population is now displaced.

In the same way that we are ignorant of our distant future; they had no knowledge, no idea, no vision, no dream, no fantasy that two millennia hence there would be an increasingly global and interconnected culture and economy of 7 billion people, world wars and holocausts encompassing and killing and making refugees of millions, staggering accomplishments in medicine and engineering and transportation and communication, and the development of sciences and mathematics and technologies that did not and could not exist in their time and that they could not have comprehendeIn the same way that we are ignorant of our distant future; they had no knowledge, no idea, no vision, no dream, no fantasy that two millennia hence there would be an increasingly global and interconnected culture and economy of 7 billion people, world wars and holocausts encompassing and killing and making refugees of millions, staggering accomplishments in medicine and engineering and transportation and communication, and the development of sciences and mathematics and technologies that did not and could not exist in their time and that they could not have comprehendein medicine and engineering and transportation and communication, and the development of sciences and mathematics and technologies that did not and could not exist in their time and that they could not have comprehendein their time and that they could not have comprehended.

The MP for Ealing North said the Church's teaching on the poor, refugees and war needs to be brought to the forefront in the Labour party.

Perhaps it was the war with Rome in the 6os, which devastated Galilee before reaching Jerusalem, that finally forced the remnants of the Q community to join the refugees fleeing north up the coast to the nearest metropolitan area, Antioch, the capital of the former Seleucid Empire.

For example, one of the Sojourners» original goals was to serve some of the tens of thousands of refugees displaced to San Francisco as a result of civil war in El Salvador.

An influential Syrian seminary educator who asked not to be named told CT that Syrian Christians are very aware of what happened to Christians in Iraq, including the estimated 500,000 Christian refugees who fled to Syria during the Iraq war.

One of the agencies, World Relief, was started in 1945 as the War Relief Commission when evangelicals wanted to help refugees fleeing war - torn EuroWar Relief Commission when evangelicals wanted to help refugees fleeing war - torn Eurowar - torn Europe.

After Germany's collapse in 1945, Bishop von Galen became a figure of hope for his people, speaking up for prisoners - of - war, for German refugees and for the homeless.

There are 20 million refugees in the world today which is the highest number recorded since World War II.

Her latest is Courage and Conviction, about Bridgettine nuns who hid Jewish refugees in Rome during the Second World War.

Out of Pietism and refugee remnants which survived the near erasure of Protestantism in Bohemia and Moravia during the Thirty Years» War came the Moravians.

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 agency's first task was to try to help the legacy of refugees and displaced persons in Europe created by the Second World War.

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.

Famines in Africa, cyclones, war, squalid refugee camps: such global crises are turned into media dramas.

His early years were spent as a cattle herder in the area known as South Sudan, but, like many from the region, was forced to live in a refugee camp after his nation became divided by war.

After losing his own father to war, he became one of the «Lost Boys of Sudan» who traveled thousands of miles alone as a child to a large refugee camp in Kenya.

Her latest is Courage and Conviction about Brigettine nuns who hid Jewish refugees in Rome during the Second World War.

And then there is world around us: the hungry bellies, the dirty water, the vicious war, the waiting and lonely children silent behind chain link fences in refugee camps, the women caught in sex trafficking, our culture's exploitation and violence masquerading as entertainment, and Lord have mercy.

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.

More than 11 million people have been displaced since the start of the war in Syria, contributing to the largest global refugee crisis since World War war in Syria, contributing to the largest global refugee crisis since World War War II.

Israel should acknowledge the right of return or compensation to Palestinian refugees; we have to acknowledge also that if the Palestinians had accepted the 1947 UN partition plan, which the Palestine National Council approved last November in Algiers, all the wars, all the expulsions and all the subsequent suffering might have been avoided, and we would today be enjoying peaceful coexistence in two neighboring states.

The SBC noted that «the world is facing the largest refugee crisis since World War II, with over 60 million people displaced throughout the world and considered refugees,» and that «there are expected to be 85,000 refugees coming into the United States in 2016 from four continents and the Caribbean.»

It was this human capital that took a desperate refugee population in Hong Kong and turned it into a world - class financial center; this human capital that saw Japan and South Korea arise from the ashes of war; this human capital whose success in turning around centuries of poverty has led to what the World Bank calls «The East Asian Miracle.»

It also flagged the displacement of Rohingya refugees, and the continuing civil war in Yemen as further major causes of concern, heading into 2018.

Thanks to a remarkable woman, young war refugees from three continents have found a new home on a soccer team in Georgia

Look it will obviously take more than saving a few refugees to solve this problem but it doesn't seem like Assad is going away anytime soon so if we can help some people while we pursue our larger goal of ending the civil war then I'm in favor of helping.

Bayern follow in the footsteps of several other German clubs and fan groups who have extended a greeting to refugees amid severe tension in Germany over the treatment of those forced to flee war - torn areas in search of asylum.

You can also talk to your child about refugees who are fleeing war in another country and donate to causes that support them.

The 1948 British Olympics was the first year to see disabled athletes participating after the German refugee, Ludwig Guttmann, hosted a competition at Stoke Mandeville Hospital where he was in charge of Second World War patients with spinal cord injuries.

These are the areas that produced the majority of refugees in 1972 and that in turn saw the largest inflow of returnees after the war.

For example, refugees fleeing wars of independence faced a perilous and tough experience, but in some cases were welcomed by independent governments in solidarity with states in which the anti-colonial war had not yet been won.

Like so many Jews in France, both naturalised and refugees, the war meant disruption of family life, fear, arrest and deportation.

It is well known that «geopolitical shocks» such as the war in Syria lead to human displacement and mobility, and that the current refugee regime fails to protect those fleeing generalized violence (Van Hear and Ruhs 2012).