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The Man in Row 26
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Lynne Hybels How small my world gets when I'm not paying attention. OUR PLANE SITS at the gate in Brusse ...

The Gathering Storm
Originally Posted: 04/10/2013 - 2:35pm | Type: Magazine Article

Janelle Tupper Climate change leads to far more consequences than just destructive weather patterns. Climate ...

A Relentless Faith
Originally Posted: 03/18/2013 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Sylvia Yu Steven Kim won't let anything - not even imprisonment - stop him from his mission to care for the people of North Korea. ...

The Lamb and the Beast
Originally Posted: 02/11/2013 - 11:12am | Type: Magazine Article

Ron Browning Revelations abound when refugees study the Bible's last book. WHEN A GROUP of refugees from ...

Welcoming the Stranger: What Jordan's Bedouin Can Teach Us
Originally Posted: 08/16/2012 - 12:04pm | Type: Blog

A recent UNHCR report notes that, increasingly, Syrians are arriving in Jordan with only the clothes they are wearing and with few economic resources after months of unemployment. ...

Making Love Practical
Originally Posted: 08/09/2012 - 11:16am | Type: Blog

In the Australian city where I live, there is a housing crisis. Only 2 percent of rental properties are vacant. The mining boom has seen a huge increase in the number of renters and this additional competition has left parties outbidding each other t ...

World Refugee Day 2012: Redefine Who Deserves Refugee Protection from Christian Communities
Originally Posted: 06/20/2012 - 4:25pm | Type: Blog

Who is a refugee in our world today? How does one receive “refugee protection” and is this determination fair and just? On World Refugee Day 2012, June 20, we remember those who have fled persecution because o ...

'Ǎhk-Toong Bāy-Bi Covered': New U2 Album Aids Victims of East Africa Famine
Originally Posted: 11/17/2011 - 5:28pm | Type: Blog

All of the proceeds from the album, 'Ǎhk-Toong Bāy-Bi Covered,' featuring Patti Smith, Snow Patrol, Depeche Mode, Jack White, The Fray and others covering U2's famous 1991 album 'Achtung Ba ...

Aid without Demands
Originally Posted: 04/26/2011 - 12:17pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jeannie Choi While diplomatic relations between the U.S. While diplomatic relations between the U.S. and North ...

Refusing to Forget North Korea
Originally Posted: 04/23/2013 - 9:23am | Type: Magazine Article

Jeannie Choi Students mobilize against the humanitarian crisis. During the 2004 presidential election, North ...

A Knock at the Door
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:30pm | Type: Magazine Article

Marilyn Lacey An excerpt from This Flowing Toward Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers. I started out thin ...

Brother, Where Art Thou?
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Alexis Vaughan Rose Marie Berger Each month, 60,000 Iraqis are forced to leave their ho ...

The Lost Boys Of Sudan
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Magazine Article

Mark Bixler The young refugees had come through almost unthinkable terrors to a strange, strange land. In 20 ...

Replacing Hatred with Hope
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Swanee Hunt, Swanee Hunt, founder of Women Waging Peace, spoke with Sojourners ’ Rose Marie Berger about her book This W ...

Web exclusive: Full text of Swanee Hunt interview
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Replacing Hatred with Hope (Bosnia, Refugees, War, Culture Watch) Bosnia,Refugees,W ...

Reality Refugees
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:23pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Kate Bowman In April, Saskatchewan's Rosthern Junior College spo ...

Haitian refugees
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler Two-hundred-seventy Haitian refugees—including child ...

Why Did You Come Here?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Camp Rakovica, Sarajevo—There were 1,500 Kosovar refugees in this camp on the dusty outskirts of Sarajevo. They had come ...

The Moral Dilemmas of Doing Good
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Pearl Sensenig Everyone wants to aid refugees. But humanitarian work in the midst of war raises some hard questions---and carries the risk ...