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How to Be an Advocate: 10 Ways

January 17, 2025 | Comments Off on How to Be an Advocate: 10 Ways
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Displaced families need your help. Here are 10 ways you can partner with World Relief to help displaced families flourish.

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Stories from the Border: Annette

September 3, 2019

Over the last few weeks the news has been filled with stories of what’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border. Many…

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Stories from the Border: Marty

August 27, 2019

Pastoring and planting churches can be difficult no matter where in the world you live. For Marty, a pastor and church planter in rural Kenya who also runs a non-profit focused on women’s rights, this proved to be true when his ministry became the target for violence and hostility.

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The Potential End to the U.S. Refugee Program Is More than a Political Crisis – It’s an Identity One

August 23, 2019

America is facing an identity crisis. It’s a crisis that threatens to undermine an identity painstakingly forged over hundreds of years — years during which America became a haven of hope for those seeking a safer, more promising place to build a future. 

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Stories from the Border: Sim

August 22, 2019

Sim arrived at the U.S. Southern border last November. Originally from Belarus, which is a part of the former Soviet Union, Sim had worked in the agri-business industry.

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Church Engagement Is the Best Solution to Humanitarian Crises

August 19, 2019

Today is World Humanitarian Day. It’s a day upon which we honor humanitarian workers around the globe, and a day on which we seek to reflect on how we, as global citizens, might respond better, smarter and more effectively to the hundreds of humanitarian crises around our world.

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How World Relief fights Ebola with the help of 300 churches

August 14, 2019

The Christian humanitarian group World Relief is working with around 300 churches to battle the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The churches are based in North Kivu, as well as Djugu territory and Ituri Province, according to Charles Franzen, director of humanitarian and disaster response at World Relief.

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Since then, for over 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to develop sustainable, locally-driven solutions to some of our world’s greatest problems.

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