FMR 48 - From the Editors
An introductory note on FMR 48, 'Faith and Responses to Displacement', from the Editors.
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The role of faith in the humanitarian sector is not easy to measure. Faiths generally advocate welcoming the stranger and there are many organisations and individuals inspired by their faith...
An introductory note on FMR 48, 'Faith and Responses to Displacement', from the Editors.
In the Central African Republic, where religion has been used as a tool to divide and manipulate the population, religious leaders have come...
Faith leaders, faith-based organisations and local faith communities play a major role in the protection of people affected by conflict, dis...
Friendship and compassionate companionship with the most vulnerable provide a powerful type of humanitarian service giving priority to perso...
Local faith communities are able to offer assistance to asylum seekers in ways that faith-based organisations, constrained by eligibility cr...
Spiritual life is a priority in many conflict-affected communities. It is rarely prioritised by aid agencies, yet may be central to the form...
Faith-based organisations take from their religious traditions both strong motivations & access to a long history of thinking concerning soc...
There is good reason to engage faith-based organisations and local faith communities in humanitarian response but doing so raises challengin...
CAFOD’s ability to partner with other FBOs and communities brings significant advantages for its work with displaced people. However, modern...
Catholic Social Teaching’s emphasis on the dignity of the human person is a lens that Catholic institutions use to evaluate how we as a glob...
A secular NGO’s experiences in south Lebanon demonstrate that it is possible for non-faith-based organisations to develop productive relatio...
Working with religious leaders is an essential element of serving local communities, as is an understanding of the religious life of local c...
An organisation based on faith will listen and try to understand when unjust laws, traditions, cultures or ideologies cause refugees to flee...
A new movement of Christian activists in Australia is using radical direct action to challenge their country’s policy of mandatory detention...
Caritas Luxembourg’s work with refugees, IDPs and migrants in Colombia, Lebanon and Luxembourg offers some examples of the ways in which a f...
While flexible in partnering with agencies best placed to assist affected populations, Luxembourg requires its partners to adhere to humanit...
When secular organisations are responding to the needs of displaced people, the religious practices and needs of the communities may not be...
Seven years ago, a strategic partnership between the United Methodist Committee on Relief and Muslim Aid in Sri Lanka was formalised into a...
Church asylum, or sanctuary, is a practice to support, counsel and give shelter to refugees who are threatened with deportation to inhumane...
Despite the anti-refugee sentiment demonstrated by Canada’s recent legislative changes and the government’s hardening attitude towards those...
The Lutheran World Federation’s experience is that closer cooperation between faith-based organisations of different faiths is both possible...
A case-study from Ghana assesses the importance of a faith-based response to displacement in West Africa, while an example from Kenya highli...
Inter-religious action has played a key role in ensuring that social cohesion and inter-religious mediation remain on the int'l agenda in re...
Both faith-based and secular organisations need to recognise the ways in which religion can provide healing and support but can also cause h...
he Protestant church in Morocco is struggling with tensions as it navigates between being a church organisation and being – in its work with...
The response of faith-based organisations to displacement in northern Myanmar has been remarkable but sustaining an open and collaborative r...
Local faith-based organisations play a central role in meeting the basic needs of the increasing urban refugee population in Bangkok. This r...
For some asylum seekers in Turkey, conversion may be an opportunistic strategy to improve resettlement prospects.
Faith-based organisations need to ensure that in providing essential humanitarian assistance they do not exploit the vulnerability of people...
The act of assistance is an act of respect for the humanity of others and is not the preserve of any one faith.
The faith community in Mizoram state in India has played an instrumental role in providing social services, changing perceptions of refugees...
A Buddhist Sri Lankan NGO provides an example of how endogenous faith-based civil society organisations can help mobilise IDPs in owning and...
An ecumenical organisation provides socio-pastoral assistance for asylum seekers while they go through the first crucial steps of the asylum...
Many churches have the necessary physical and social assets to assist refugees in the community both individually and by bringing them toget...
As a locally based faith-based organisation, there were several aspects that enabled Soka Gakkai to contribute effectively to the relief eff...
Since its creation in 1950, UNHCR has engaged with faith-based organisations, faith communities and faith leaders in carrying out its work....
Use of the faith-based label demands greater clarification lest it lose coherence and result in adverse policy implications, excluding relig...
A legal decision about whether refugees in Uganda can become citizens continues to be delayed.
Forty years after the OAU Convention on Refugees came into force, the dismal state in which refugees in Africa find themselves these days ra...
Many Central American migrants flee their home country as a result of violence and threats from the criminal gangs. A large number of them a...
One of the main challenges facing refugees trying to integrate in their host country is finding a suitable job. Sweden recognises this issue...
In the 1990s nearly 250,000 people were displaced by violence in India. More than 20 years later the question for them is whether the respon...
At hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in November 2013 on the human rights situation in Mexico, the issue of the inte...
Civil society groups are embracing a recent victory in the High Court of Kenya as a reminder of the important role that strategic litigation...