The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary welcomed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Dialogue on Protection Challenges with the theme of "Faith and Protection" which was held 12-13 December 2012 at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
14 December 2012
Migrants and refugees were identified as the key priority in the battle against poverty and injustice in Asia at the regional Anglican Alliance consultation that closed in Hong Kong recently.
27 November 2011
The hardships faced by migrants and refugees forced to flee poverty and conflict is the focus for the first day of the Anglican Alliance’s Asia consultation which opens in Hong Kong (Monday Nov14th).
14 November 2011
SYDNEY--Australian church leaders are criticizing a government solution to deport hundreds of asylum seekers to Malaysia as a "swap" to settle 4000 refugees from Malaysian detention centers.
05 August 2011
Asylum seekers should be detained no longer than a month and only on Australian soil, the Archbishop of Adelaide said in a recent media release.
04 August 2011
The Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Revd John Pritchard, has expressed concern about “outrageous attempts to intimidate” about 3,400 Iranian exiles living in Camp Ashraf
21 January 2011
With some four and a half thousand asylum cases pending at the Department of Justice the issue of refugees and their shelter in Ireland is starting to loom large with the populace.
11 May 1998