I know a really famous refugee. Do you?

The government in this country has resettled Approx 1,889 refugees under a special resettlement scheme. Where from? Syria, the Sudan, Iraq and other countries too. More recently from the Ukraine. But there are over 230,000 refugees waiting in the UK to have their cases heard.

Do You Like Your Home?

Across the world there are 70 million people forcibly moved from their homes and 36 million are children under 18 years old. Over 103 million people have been made to leave their home by persecution, conflict, violence and human rights abuse and violations. (Figures are from the United Nations Refugee Council).

Would you like to live in a refugee camp?

Hard but horrifying that some of the biggest refugee camps are in Kenya and were built in 1992 as a result of the Somalia Civil War and of course in Jordan after the State of Israel was created in 1947 and where over 32 million Palestinians now languish. Page 3 Refugees Are From All Over, but the largest numbers are from The Sudan, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and Palestine, and all this long before the Ukrainian refugees made headline news and we rightly offered our homes to look after them. At least 4 million Ukrainians have fled and over 7 million are displaced.

Refugees often long to go home but cannot. They have lost everything: family members, homes, pets, certificates, bank accounts, clothes, photo albums, and their very freedom itself.

We Pray For All Refugees This Christmas and long for there to be peace so they can go home or to be able to start a new life with dignity and hope.

Who Is The Most Famous Refugee Ever?

You Know Who! Who fled a vicious oppressor and had to run for his life with his parents to a foreign land? Why Jesus of course! Our Lord was a refugee and his family escaped to Egypt when the mad, bad King Herod ordered all little boys under the age of two to be slaughtered in Bethlehem since he wanted to be sure he had killed the king born there under a bright star.

That puts a whole new slant on how we treat refugees today!