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Pray for These People If You Care about the Plight of Refugees Mark Finney Asylum seeker camp near Athens The global refugee crisis has always been about more than just statistics. At its heart, the refugee crisis is about people and how to care for them. In the midst of all that’s going on today, it’s easy to lose sight of this personal dimension. But refugees are people with their own hopes, dreams, fears, families and futures. If we really want to protect refugee lives, then we have to hear their stories and lift up their voices. Through my work at World Relief, I’ve been blessed to ...

KXLY April 22, 2021 6:46 PM Maher Kawash Former President Donald Trump previously set the cap at a record low of 15,000. President Biden is expected to increase that number in early May, but not to his original campaign promise of nearly 65,000. In the meantime, Iman Aljanabi, a refugee from Iraq currently living in Spokane, has gone seven years without seeing her son. Aljanabi fled from Iraq because of insurgents terrorizing her family. “Some of my relatives were kids as well as my son was kidnapped, so that was part of the reason of fleeing from Iraq,” Aljanabi ...

S udanese refugee Michael Bacuth's brother and sister-in-law were shot and killed in 2013, victims of the kind of violence that Bacuth came to Spokane to escape. But his niece survived, turning up in an Egyptian refugee camp five years later. Ever since Bacuth has been focused on one mission: Rescue his niece. "I need to bring her here because she's a little girl," Bacuth says. "Nobody is with her. That's why I need help. ... We're waiting for anybody to help us." During the refugee-restricted years of the Trump administration, bringing his orphaned niece to America was nearly impossi...

Heading into September, major wildfires in Montana had destroyed 13 structures. That changed early in the month when high winds whipped a series of fires that burned 153 structures, including a combined 116 structures destroyed by the Bridger Foothills fire in Gallatin County and the Bobcat fire in Musselshell County. At the same time, the Huff fire was pushed through Garfield County by winds that at one point gusted 50 mph, leading to the temporary evacuation of the town of Jordan. The fire burned 24 structures and among the livestock losses were 200 sheep. The 166 structures lost over the c...