Anglicans, Lutherans put spotlight on refugees
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38513
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2016 January
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2016 January
- Volume
- 142
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 7
- Notes
- "The directors of The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) and of Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) have offered hopeful words about the work their relief and development organizations are doing to help refugees, and a dire prognosis for the world's 42.8 million refugees and internally displaced people. 'The refugee situation is not going to get any better', PWRDF director Adele Finney told members of Council of General Synod (CoGS) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada's National Council (NCC) on November 13 [2015]". "'What we want to say is, "remember refugees worldwide", said Finney. [Robert] Granke [director of Canadian Lutheran World Relief] noted that CLWR is involved in Central East Africa, helping South Sudanese nationals fleeing to Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya to escape violence in their own country. It is also working in Jordan, where many Syrians have fled, and in Iraq, which has a high number of internally displaced people". "Finney reported that PWRDF has also been involved in aiding refugees in need of long-term care -- for example, in the case of refugees fleeing violence in Sri Lanka, some of whom have been in refugee camps for 30 years. PWRDF also supports the Well Child Clinic in Cairo, which is on the front lines of dealing with the massive influx of Sudanese, South Sudanese and Syrian refugees to Egypt".
- Subjects
- Refugees - 21st century
- Refugees - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Refugees - Religious aspects - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
- Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF)
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR)
- Finney, Adele
- Granke, Robert