Immigration

About 40 leaders addressed a packed audience during the candlelit interfaith gathering at First United Methodist Church of Chicago on Clark and Washington Streets. Source: Faith leaders gather to support Chicago's immigrant communities | SikhNet

AMSTERDAM — On April 30, 1941, a Jewish man here in Amsterdam wrote a desperate letter to an American friend, pleading for help emigrating to the United States. Source: Anne Frank Today Is a Syrian Girl - The New York Times

Four Hindu priests sat cross-legged on the floor in front of silver trays of rice, flowers and vermillion powder, chanting in low baritones that reverberated off the bare walls of the old brick temple.An iPhone propped on a chair captured the service —...

An assistant federal security director said he considered the instructions racial profiling and reported them to officials in Washington. Source: Minnesota T.S.A. Manager Says He Was Told to Target Somali-Americans - The New York Times

As France grapples with radical Islam and a rise in anti-Semitic acts, a growing number of Jews are choosing to settle in the British capital. Source: London Becomes a Leading Destination for French Jews After Attacks - The New York Times

Rachel Martin speaks with Fahim Rahim, a doctor in the largely Mormon town of Pocatello. Source: In Time Of Backlash, What It's Like To Be A Muslim In Idaho : NPR

The leaders of the Catholic and Orthodox churches called on Europe to show greater compassion for migrants, a move widely welcomed by migrants as well as residents on the Greek island of Lesbos. Source: Pope And Patriarch Make A Rare Show Of Unity In...

“One of our great strengths is to make visible in appropriate ways the migrant men, women, and children we serve,” says Rev. Sean Carroll, SJ, executive director of the Kino Border Initiative, a Catholic ministry in Mexico and the US. “The more visible...

An ambitious plan for the 69-acre Regent Park neighborhood is disrupting entrenched notions of class, race and religion, at a time when concerns over income inequality and immigration are growing. Source: In Toronto, a Neighborhood in Despair Transforms...

“The countries neighboring Syria—Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan—have been extremely generous to the refugees,” says Michel Gabaudan, president of Refugees International. “But they’re bursting at the seams now, and that’s why we see people moving out. I think...