Churches in Australia are offering sanctuary to refugees after the country’s High Court ruled that it was lawful for the government to return some 270 asylum seekers – including almost 40 children – to off-shore detention camps.
04 February 2016
Ten children – five boys and five girls – are amongst 26 Kurdish refugees from Iraq who have been confirmed to have drowned off the coast of Samos Island in Greece yesterday, the Anglican mission agency United Society (formerly USPG) say.
29 January 2016
Anglicans from Mexico and the United States will gather for a cross-border Eucharist service on the day before Palm Sunday in a park that straddles the border between Tijuana and San Diego. The congregations will pray the stations of the cross with the last station at the border. The event is organised to draw attention to the plight of immigrants.
28 January 2016
More much-needed necessities will soon be on their way to families displaced by the war in Syria after the Anglican Church of Canada's Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund announced a $300,000 grant for necessities of life such as food, water, shelter, clothing, schooling, blankets, livelihood support, counselling and other forms of aid.
22 January 2016
Following this week’s high level conference on the refugee crisis in Europe, organised by the World Council of Churches and the United Nations, a joint statement has been issued by the WCC, UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund, and the UNHCR.
21 January 2016
There is a need for “urgent action to strengthen coordination and cooperation in Europe's response to the refugee and migrant crisis,” a high level conference of governments, UN agencies, churches and civil society organisations heard this week. The conference was organised by the WCC and focused on ways to strengthen coordinated responses to the crisis.
20 January 2016
A dangerous “horror” location on the Greek island of Lesbos has been turned into a 24-hour reception centre offering shelter, food and medical care to vulnerable refugees by the church-based Lighthouse Refugee Relief (LRR) agency using funds provided through the Anglican mission agency United Society’s Rapid Response Appeal.
19 January 2016
On New Year’s Day, a Muslim family of refugees from Syria began the last leg of a journey that had lasted almost three years and brought them thousands of kilometres to a new home in Canada, sponsored by a local Anglican church in Ontario.
13 January 2016
Churches across the globe have spoken out in support of migrants on a day which has been designated by the United Nations as International Migrants Day.
18 December 2015
Update on the latest situation facing refugees relocated from Idomeni, on the Greece-Macedonia border, to Athens where they face over-crowding and a lack of resources, by Max McClellan, who is helping to co-ordinate the response to the refugee crisis in Greece on behalf of the Anglican mission agency United Society (formerly USPG) and the Diocese in Europe.
16 December 2015