{"id":514,"date":"2014-06-30T09:29:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=514"},"modified":"2022-04-11T20:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T00:15:19","slug":"syrian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/syrian-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Refugee tents at Arbat Transit Camp for Syrian Refugees in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, March 3, 2014. By Cmacauley (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0<\/a>], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p><\/div>Experts estimate that at present there are 50 million refugees in the world.\u00a0I have drawn attention to the Muslims being persecuted in Myanmar (Burma) in recent months.\u00a0Other groups being displaced from home and country include numerous Christians and Muslims fleeing atrocities in Iraq and Syria.\u00a0\u00a0Indeed we pray for all those who suffer from these conflicts.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0broadcast, Welcoming Syrian Refugees – Asylum in Kurdistan<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0by the\u00a0Deutsche Welle T.V. channel offers a sobering report on the work of Salah Ahmad and others in the Domiz Camp in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, where\u00a0Dr. Ahmad\u00a0has set up a treatment center for\u00a0Syrian refugees who are victims of human rights violations.\u00a0This report and Somini Sengupta’s\u00a0article, U.N. Reports Sharp Increase in Refugees as Civil Wars Cripple Nations<\/em><\/a>, prompt us to ask, “What concrete efforts can we make to help?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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