The Uyghur people in China are currently undergoing egregious violations of basic human rights. These injustices demand a concerted international effort to protect the Uyghur people.

Our group began its week-long trip of learning about the United States’ shifting immigration policies in Brownsville, Texas, a border city which lies across the Rio Grande River from Matamoros, Mexico. There, we crossed the bridge into Matamoros and met migrants living in a cluster of over 700 camping tents..

How does good stewardship extend beyond our borders to loving our neighbors in Gaza and other places facing conflict today?

The work of UNRWA, which honors the dignity of refugees as people created in the image of God, can only continue to be done through the provision of adequate funding.
 

If Mary and Joseph traveled through present-day Israel and Palestine to register in the national census, what would their journey entail?

Let us also be challenged and inspired by the Honduran Christians who are audaciously working to transform a police force that has been co-opted by narrow interests for far too long.

The security of persons, whether citizens or refugees, should not suffer one at the expense of the other.

While many will disagree about the best way for our government to respond, there is one program that has gained little attention in the news but is making a great impact.

We clothe the refugee because Christ first clothed us. We open our arms for the refugee because Christ opened his arms for us.

For Canadians, the image of a drowned child is more deeply ingrained than that of the violent militant.

Whatever the cause for displacement, refugees are people with no other option but to leave home in search of security.

The biblical case that Christians should extend welcome, compassion, and love to refugees is quite clear.

Exclusive populism stands in stark contrast with Jesus’s admonition in the Good Samaritan: it seeks to exclude, demonize, and marginalize outsiders, while abdicating responsibility for their dignity or livelihoods.

Hearing about the horrors and evils entwined in human trafficking pulls at our heartstrings and begs for action. As Christian citizens, we must do the work to hold institutions responsible, and advocate for stronger policies and practices both in our country and across the world.

Last August my church community welcomed seven of the 10,000 Syrian refugees that were resettled in the United States in 2016...