When fear wins, Christianity loses
Christians have a responsibility to the men, women, and children fleeing their homelands.
Every minute, 24 people across the globe leave their homes behind and become refugees--roughly 24 per minute, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
The recent travel ban by President Donald Trump that forbids refugees
from seven countries to enter the United States complicates this exodus.
Some
believe that the U.S., with a quota of 110,000 per year, allows too
many refugees into the country. Trump has issued an order to cut that
number to 50,000 and, over the past weekend, eliminated entrance for
many.
Following President Trump's proposed moratorium on
refugees entering the United States, a few strident Christian voices,
such as Franklin Graham, the
evangelical preacher and son of the late Billy Graham, have endorsed his
proposal. Yet far more Christian leaders, both Catholic and Protestant,
have decried such a move as antithetical to the teachings of
Christianity.
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