{"id":51599,"date":"2015-09-14T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/faith_communities_urge_u-s-_to_resettle_more_syrian_refugees\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:15:17","slug":"faith_communities_urge_u-s-_to_resettle_more_syrian_refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51599","title":{"rendered":"Faith communities urge U.S. to resettle more Syrian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church World Service (CWS), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and other faith communities are urging the U.S. government to resettle 100,000 Syrian refugees this coming fiscal year, in addition to increasing the total U.S. resettlement commitment to 100,000 refugees from other parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The CWS and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service are cooperative ministries by churches based in the United States, including member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 60 million people have been displaced from their homes,\u201d\u009d said Erol Kekic, executive director of the Immigration and Refugee Program for CWS. \u201cSyria is the largest crisis we are facing but let\u2019s not forget Somalia, Afghanistan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/press-centre\/news\/faith-communities-urge-u-s-to-resettle-more-syrian-refugees\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church World Service (CWS), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and other faith communities are urging the U.S. government to resettle 100,000 Syrian refugees this coming fiscal year, in addition to increasing the total U.S. resettlement commitment to 100,000 refugees from<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51599\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,175,143,168,144,147,363,203,154,151,108,556,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-immigration","category-lutheran","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-syria","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}