“Education is your power,” said college student and advocate Esther Ngemba . “You can flee anywhere, and nobody can take that from you.”
Student who fled war in Congo as a child advocates for refugee education
New network will accompany migrants; National Migration Week is Sept. 19-25
“The network we are building will provide a way for the many people who want to help newcomers in their community to accompany them and to advocate for migrants, refugees and those seeking asylum in the United States,” Joan Rosenhauer, executive director of JRS/USA, said.
JRS welcomes European court ruling blocking U.K. deportations to Rwanda
The controversial plan, introduced through the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, involves a 120 million-British pound deal with Rwanda to process the applications of single men who arrive illegally by small boats on U.K. shores.
JRS launches border program to address migrants’ psychological needs
Migrants arriving in Ciudad Juárez in recent years have remained stuck in the Mexican border city, unable to claim asylum in the United States and vulnerable to crimes such as kidnapping, robbery and extortion.
Catholic agencies deliver aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Amid fears that many areas in Ethiopia’s Tigray region remained unsafe, Catholic humanitarian agencies and their partners were moving food and other supplies to locations near the border of Tigray, where a month of fighting has left thousands without food, medicine and other basic needs.
New book gives refugees’ firsthand accounts of their experiences
Danielle Vella, an official with Jesuit Refugee Service who spent six months collecting the stories of refugees in camps in Africa, Asia, Europe as well as a few who made it to the United States.
‘I’d sure want my kid in school,’ even as a refugee, singer says
James McMurtry is one of a fistful of performers crisscrossing the western United States as part of the Lampedusa tour that benefits Jesuit Refugee Service’s Global Education Initiative for refugee families.