What is it about?
This article examines the religious touchstones of Christian faith-based organizations that work with refugees, migrants and immigrants, their substantive work, and their policy positions. It also documents and examines the opposition they face among self-identified Christian politicians and media sources.
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Why is it important?
The paper discusses the ideologies that underline opposition to the religious touchstones, substantive work, and policy positions of Christian faith-based organizations with forced migrants, and immigrants. It describes this opposition as a "trial" and argues that much of this opposition does not reflect core Christian teaching. It also identifies sources of "consolation" that faith based organizations draw from their work and how they see and understand their commitments.
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This paper is something of a personal reflection on working in faith-based organizations with forced migrants and immigrants for 32 years. It raises the real problem -- often not discussed out of a sense of a broader religious connection to persons of faith and co-religionists -- of the seemingly un-Christian actions, policy positions, and stances of co-religionists to forced migrants and immigrants.
Mr Donald Kerwin
University of Notre Dame
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This page is a summary of: The Trials and Consolations of Migrant-Serving Faith-Based Organizations, Journal of Law and Religion, August 2024, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2024.9.
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