Tag: Refugees
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In Defense of Compassion
by His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias (Volos, Greece) This piece was originally published in Greek in the newspaper “Τα Νέα” on Nov. 9, 2019. English translation courtesy of Soo Town. The Greek original is available here. History is filled with the abominations of humanity and the dismal fate of those peoples who embraced them. […]
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Should Middle East Religious-Minority Refugees Be Prioritized?
by Samuel Tadros President Trump’s executive order on refugees has been widely, and rightly, criticized on policy and moral grounds. But while criticism of the executive order is indeed proper and necessary, one aspect of the new policy, namely the prioritization of claims of religious persecution by religious minorities in refugee applications, which has received […]