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Stories from the Border: Josue
Life in Central America’s northern triangle is riddled with violence as a result of economic collapse and political instability.
Read MoreWorld Relief Responds to Interim Final Rule Asylum Regulation
The Trump administration announced Monday an interim final rule, effective yesterday, making families fleeing persecution who come through the U.S.-Mexico border ineligible for asylum consideration unless they first applied for and were denied asylum in one of the countries through which they traveled.
Read MoreWorld Relief Sponsors Side Event to Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom to Urge the Restoration of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program
Today, World Relief, HIAS, The Episcopal Church, the National Association of Evangelicals and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS) cosponsored an official congressional briefing as a side event to the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom.
Read MoreStories from the Border: Amos
As a member of an ethnic English-speaking minority in Cameroon, Amos was a teacher who once attended a meeting advocating for his people’s right to vote and better government representation.
Read MoreWorld Relief Shares Refugee Stories of Hope, Transformation on World Refugee Day 2019
In celebration of the courage of refugees, World Relief commemorated World Refugee Day 2019 throughout the month of June with a number of initiatives designed to increase support of this remarkable community.
Read MoreStories from the Border: Naomi
At 9 years old, Naomi’s life in Central America was far from the stable, safe and secure childhood we all hope for. Her mother had left home to try and find work.
Read More5 Ways You Can Help
Last week, we learned that vulnerable children and families are being detained in inadequate facilities and threatened with deportation. If you’re like us, you believe that families belong together, and that this is a grave injustice that we must fight back against. As Christians, and as Americans.
Read MoreTragic drowning at Mexico-US border should shake us from our complacency
A Prayer for Oscar & Valeria
How long must we wait, oh Lord?
For mercy
For justice
For action
How long did Oscar wait?
Valeria atop his back
Holding tight to her daddy.
World Relief Challenges Americans Not to Look Away, Help the Children in Detention at Our Border
As the heartbreaking image of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, gripped by his young daughter in their last moments of life along the U.S.-Mexico border, pricks the conscience of the nation, World Relief is challenging Americans not to look away, but to respond with courage and compassion.
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