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Starting School in a New Country: The Journey of Refugee and Immigrant Students

By chicagoland | September 4, 2025

For the more than 100,000 estimated refugee and displaced children in the nation, a new school year isn’t just the start of a new grade. It’s a chance to reclaim stability, rebuild routine and rediscover hope.

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The Christmas Story and Asylum-Seekers

By chicagoland | December 20, 2021

After the wise men left, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Jesus and Mary, his mother. Why? Because Herod was searching for the newborn to kill him (Matthew 2:1-23). The story…

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4 Ways to Read, Watch, and Listen to Powerful Immigrant and Refugee Stories

By Carrie Woodward | December 16, 2021

At World Relief, we love to bring you inspiring and meaningful stories about the immigrants and refugees arriving in Chicagoland. Yet we are all part of an even bigger story – of migration, change, poverty, and global factors that impact…

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Holiday Gift Guide 2021

By chicagoland | December 6, 2021

Welcome to World Relief Chicagoland’s first annual holiday gift guide! We’ve created a holiday gift guide that creates change with every gift you buy. When you purchase a gift from the holiday gift guide, you’ll be a part of building…

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Advent Prayer Guide: Taking Heart

By chicagoland | November 28, 2021

We dwell in a world still racked with extreme poverty, violence, mass displacement, and suffering. Covid-19 continues to expose these realities of injustice in new and overwhelming ways, and it feels debilitating. Advent is a moment to enter in, hold…

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