Additional Resources for December Issue 2015   The Episcopal Church Resources  Episcopal Migration Ministries  The Episcopal Church     Local Diocesan Resources Austin - The Rev. Sherry Williams Houston - The Rev. Linda Shelton    For Refugees UNHCR (United...

As hundreds of migrants continue to drown in the Mediterranean, European leaders wring their hands and plan to “do something.” This crisis however has not just happened. Seven years ago, refugees arriving by sea were overwhelming the Italian and Greek authorities, who asked for help. This writer...

The Burmese family of seven still looked a bit dazed, having just arrived in Austin 36 hours earlier from Malaysia with a brief stopover in Los Angeles. Members of St. Christopher’s worked closely with Episcopal Migration Ministries and Refugee Services of Texas to furnish the small apartment...

Gladys Owade, 56, grew up privileged in Liberia, a West African country founded by freed slaves in 1847, but she has lived, and survived, a life of profound loss, terror and flight. All of the challenges she experienced as a refugee she has overcome, as she gained an unwavering faith in...

The first, and most important task, for the al Dali family is to learn English. They have less than six months to become self-sufficient in their new Austin home before financial support from the Resettlement Services of Texas (RST) runs out. The four children, ages 10-16, can’t wait to go to...

Heshima Kenya is a nonprofit organization in Kenya that helps unaccompanied and separated refugee children and youth, especially girls, young women and their children living in Nairobi.

[Episcopal News Service] A little more than an hour’s drive outside Rwanda’s capital Kigali, 14,500 Congolese refugees live atop and along a hillside in red mud huts safely nestled in the country’s interior, far from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province from which most of them...

On that first day in June, I stood in a Budapest train station with half a dozen people I didn’t know, wondering if I had the skills or stamina to help. A few weeks later, I woke up with 15 Afghanis in my flat, then accompanied them to the immigration office to obtain documents they needed. My...