JRS/USA witnesses to the reality that God is present in human history, even in the most tragic experiences of persons driven from their homes by conflict, natural disaster, economic injustice, or violation of human rights.
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Jesuit Refugee Service/USA Haitians in Dominican Republic face violence, abuse
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Catholic San Francisco Assistant Editor Rick DelVecchio and two other Catholic journalists recently spent eight days in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to report on migrants and refugees, whose vulnerability ...
Jesuit Refugee Service/USA Dispatches from Sri Lanka, Day Three – Reflections on Reconciliation
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Father Kenneth J. Gavin, S.J., the Regional Director of Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, is in Sri Lanka this week for a meeting of JRS Regional Directors.
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Praying with Refugees - In July of this year, Pope Benedict XVI published an encyclical letter to “all people of good will.” Caritas in Veritate, or Charity in Truth, reflects
on the theme of social development – and it’s silent partner, social
isolation – in our ever-more interconnected world. As we recall God’s
love du...ring this Advent season, Charity in Truth is an apt place to reflect upon the Church’s social doctrine of charity, which is itself rooted in love.
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Jesuit Refugee Service/USA Program aims to break culture of violence in Nepal refugee camps
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Jesuit Refugee Service/USA JRS/USA Regional Director Ken Gavin writes dispatches from Sri Lanka. He is there for the JRS Regional Directors meeting, and will be writing a short note each day of his impressions of the situation in Sri Lanka, seven months after the end of the decades-long civil war.
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Jesuit Refugee Service/USA U.S. Backpedals on Landmine Policy: The United States now says a review of its landmines policy is ongoing. http://bit.ly/7jSLSX
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U.S. disregards allies, will NOT join landmine ban treaty. U.S. is only NATO country not to sign on. http://bit.ly/82XzKH
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Border Patrol construction crews have created a limited “public access
area” inside Friendship Park that would prevent visitors on the U.S.
side from drawing closer than five feet to the international boundary.
A sign posted at the entrance to the park lists “rules for entry,”
among them: “Physical contact with individuals... in Mexico is not
permitted.” Local leaders are calling for a new design allowing visitors easily to see, hear and touch each other at the historic border park.
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Jesuit Refugee Service/USA Immigrants will play a key role in Minnesota’s economic future, according to a report released by the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute and the Minnesota Business Immigration Coalition.
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(Washington, DC) - The United States should commit to join the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines when it attends a milestone meeting of the agreement beginning November 29, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today.
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The 2009 Jesuit Refugee Service/USA Annual Report is now available on the website. JRS/USA
remains committed to its mission of accompanying, serving and defending
the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people both within the
U.S. and throughout the world, and the annual report highlights some of
our efforts during the past year.
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