Tag: Refugees

Pakistani Christians in Thailand given temporary ID cards

April 6, 2016 Pakistan Asylum seekers, Gojra, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Refugees, Taliban, UN

Pakistani Christians in a Thai detention facility, in an image taken from a BBC documentary.BBC Last month, World Watch Monitor reported that there are about 11,500 Pakistanis seeking asylum in Thailand, a 51 per cent increase from the previous year; all are classified as Christians in a recent report . . . Read More

Enterprising Christians see hope, despite Syria’s five years of war

March 15, 2016 Syria Civil War, Damascus, IDPs, Refugees, Syria

Of an estimated population of 17 million in Syria, 11 million have either left the country or been internally displaced by the civil war which ‘officially’ enters its 5th year today, 15th March. This was when protests began in Deraa, which quickly led to the spiral down into civil war. . . . Read More

Calais ‘Jungle’ camp demolition to begin

February 25, 2016 Calais, Europe, France, Grande-Synthe, Migrants, Refugees, Trauma

Local authorities want to move migrants either into more hygienic quarters within converted shipping containers, or to refugee centres across France.Courtesy Marguerite M. Horner French authorities have been told that they can demolish the southern part of the Calais migrant camp known as the “Jungle”. Calais is one of . . . Read More

Calais ‘Jungle’ to be demolished

February 23, 2016 Calais, France, Grande-Synthe, Migrants, Refugees, UK

The southern half of the “Jungle” migrant camp in Calais, northern France, will be demolished tomorrow (24 Feb.), as French authorities seek to move migrants into converted shipping containers outside the camp or refugee centres across the country. It will affect between 1,000 and 3,000 people; thousands of migrants currently . . . Read More

Christian migrants find discrimination follows them to Europe

February 17, 2016 Calais, Dunkirk, Europe, Grande-Synthe, Migrants, Refugees

Christians among the thousands of Middle Eastern migrants who have fled to Europe have discovered that a familiar burden has followed them: religious harassment. Some Christian migrants have been subjected to discrimination, harassment and violence from Muslim migrants with extremist views. One Iranian convert to Christianity was murdered. The phenomenon . . . Read More

Refugee churches in Khartoum ordered to ‘register’

February 12, 2016 Sudan Christmas, Khartoum, Refugees, Sudan

Representatives from Sudan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs have convened leaders of refugee churches in Khartoum to tell them to stop their services until they have registered, sources have told World Watch Monitor. The churches affected are those started for refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and the Philippines, among others. If . . . Read More

Italy takes 1,000 refugees via humanitarian visas

February 9, 2016 Ethiopia, Europe, Italy, Lebanon, Migrants, Morocco, North Africa, Refugees, Syria

Italian Protestant churches will help settle 1,000 refugees arriving there this month through a “humanitarian corridor” from camps in Lebanon, Morocco and Ethiopia. The refugees, including both Christians and Muslims, will travel under the safety of humanitarian visas so they are not tempted to risk deadly sea crossings to Europe. . . . Read More

Church and mosque demolished in refugee camp

February 3, 2016 Calais, France, Migrants, Refugees

A makeshift church and mosque that had been constructed in a refugee camp in northern France have been demolished by the authorities, . An official said they were attempting to clear a 100m security zone around the perimeter of the Calais camp known as the “Jungle”, but a charity spokesman . . . Read More

Iraqi priest released

January 5, 2016 Syria Damascus, Idlib, Iraq, Kidnapping, Refugees, Syria, Turkey

An Iraqi priest has been released, two weeks after he was abducted on his way back to his parish in Yacoubieh in Syria’s Idlib province, reports the . Franciscan friar Dhiya Azziz, 41, apparently disappeared from Lattakia, Syria, on 23 December after visiting his family (refugees in Turkey). Released on . . . Read More

After Aung San Suu Kyi’s election win, Myanmar’s displaced Kachin are hopeful they can go home for Christmas

December 16, 2015 Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi, Baptists, Christmas, Churches, Elections, Kachin, Refugees

As democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi prepares to assume power in Myanmar, two Baptist leaders among the country’s ethnic Kachin refugees are cautiously expecting more freedom to live their Christian faith, perhaps as soon as this Christmas. More than 100,000 ethnic Kachin, displaced due to civil war that broke . . . Read More

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