Author : Deirdre Cornell
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1626980403
This title provides a moving and spiritually grounded presentation of the value to the United States of migrants, immigrants, and refugees. The Bible is rich in powerful stories of migrants. Jesus was a migrant. The world is filled with migrants and refugees whose dramatic stories are impossible to ignore. This book shows what being a migrant really means, what being a Christian means, and what migrants mean to the spiritual and material growth of a society that welcomes them.
Author : D. Glenn Butner Jr.
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506479383
Images of modern refugees often invoke images of the infant Christ and the historical circumstances of the holy family's flight to Egypt in the face of persecution. But rather than leaving this association at the merely symbolic level, Jesus the Refugee explores Jesus's flight through modern legal conventions on refugee status in the United States and the European Union. Would Jesus and his parents be protected from refoulement? Would they receive rights to employment and civic engagement? Would they be turned away? Is the holy family a refugee family? Jesus the Refugee argues that the holy family has a limited set of legal options for protection, but under current law is unlikely to receive any. This shocking claim stands or falls on legal details like the ability to demonstrate reasonable fear of persecution, or whether fleeing Palestine (but not the Roman Empire) affords protection for internally displaced migrants. Besides introducing the basics of modern refugee law and processes, Jesus the Refugee aims to raise ethical challenges to our current refugee system by highlighting Jesus as one of the "least of these," indicting our moral failures and challenging us to make amends.
Author : Samuel Lee
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2008-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0595504086
For the millions of people who reside outside their native countries, Blessed Migrants shares God's strategy in reaching the changing world through teaching Abraham's four everlasting promises. Dr. Samuel Lee, founder of Jesus Christ Foundation Churches and an international outreach ministry, answers a personal calling to help migrants understand the important role they play in the kingdom of God and to encourage revivals in their hosting nations. By discussing the history of migrants through Biblical stories, he illustrates how today migrants can becomes an instrument of love and a blessing to others-literally transforming themselves into modern-day Abrahams, Josephs, Jacobs and Ruths. Dr. Lee also focuses on the biblical conditions that must be realized in order for current migrants to be blessed and how a Christian migrant can successfully interact with other cultures and host nations. Several migrant-exporting nations are described including the Philippines, Africa, and Korea. Abraham was a migrant and pioneer of faith who dutifully followed the Lord's command. The blessings he received from God still to this day remain inspiration for migrants who want to make a global impact through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Author : Julia Lambert Fogg
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493420151
Immigration is an issue of major concern within the Christian community. As Christians, how should we respond to the current crisis? Interweaving biblical narratives of border crossing and recent stories of immigrants at the US-Mexico border, this accessibly written book invites Christians to reconsider the plight of their neighbors and respond with compassion to the present immigration crisis. Julia Lambert Fogg, a pastor and New Testament scholar who is actively serving immigrant families in Southern California, interprets well-known biblical stories in a fresh way and puts a human face on the immigration debate. Fogg argues that Christians must step out of their comfort zones and learn to cross social, ethnic, and religious borders--just as Jesus did--to become the body of Christ in the world. She encourages readers to welcome Christ by embracing DREAMers, the undocumented, asylum seekers, and immigrants, and she inspires Christians to advocate for immigrant justice in their communities.
Author : Groody, Daniel G.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608339491
"A systematic look at migration that seeks to reimagine the operative political, social, and cultural narratives of immigration through a Eucharistic theology"--
Author : Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil
Publisher : Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 8531115256
Migration has been a reality since the beginning, when Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise. There are important events in the Bible which involve migration, whether for economic reasons, the desire to be near a family member, the outbreak of war, and so on. This work introduces the topic of migration in various aspects, divided into thirteen tracks, bringing together a collection of more than 50 stories of the Bible. Each story is preceded by an introduction that helps contextualize the biblical content and to understand the historical and cultural principles involved. Stories of Migrants in the Bible shows the history of each person, as a migrant, living with the expectation of reaching the heavenly city.
Author : Karen González
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1513804146
Meet people who have fled their homelands. Hagar. Joseph. Ruth. Jesus. Here is a riveting story of seeking safety in another land. Here is a gripping journey of loss, alienation, and belonging. In The God Who Sees, immigration advocate Karen Gonzalez recounts her family’s migration from the instability of Guatemala to making a new life in Los Angeles and the suburbs of south Florida. In the midst of language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and the tremendous pressure to assimilate, Gonzalez encounters Christ through a campus ministry program and begins to follow him. Here, too, is the sweeping epic of immigrants and refugees in Scripture. Abraham, Hagar, Joseph, Ruth: these intrepid heroes of the faith cross borders and seek refuge. As witnesses to God’s liberating power, they name the God they see at work, and they become grafted onto God’s family tree. Find resources for welcoming immigrants in your community and speaking out about an outdated immigration system. Find the power of Jesus, a refugee Savior who calls us to become citizens in a country not of this world.
Author : Patrick Johnstone
Publisher :
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Church and the world
ISBN : 9781941405246
More people are on the move today than ever before. Even more will be on the move tomorrow. These are the factors that make people get up and go: War. Drought. Terrorism. Poverty. Failed states. Environmental catastrophes. Disease. Revolutions. Johnstone says these factors will increase migration in coming decades. Even more people will be on the move. Johnstone helps us understand why God loves refugees so much. He shows how some Christians around the world are serving refugees right now. And he challenges us to figure out what we can do in our own communities.
Author : Suma Ikeuchi
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503607965
After the introduction of the "long-term resident" visa, the mass-migration of Nikkeis (Japanese Brazilians) has led to roughly 190,000 Brazilian nationals living in Japan. While the ancestry-based visa confers Nikkeis' right to settlement virtually as a right of blood, their ethnic ambiguity and working-class profile often prevent them from feeling at home in their supposed ethnic homeland. In response, many have converted to Pentecostalism, reflecting the explosive trend across Latin America since the 1970s. Jesus Loves Japan offers a rare window into lives at the crossroads of return migration and global Pentecostalism. Suma Ikeuchi argues that charismatic Christianity appeals to Nikkei migrants as a "third culture"--one that transcends ethno-national boundaries and offers a way out of a reality marked by stagnant national indifference. Jesus Loves Japan insightfully describes the political process of homecoming through the lens of religion, and the ubiquitous figure of the migrant as the pilgrim of a transnational future.
Author : Vanthanh Nguyen
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781565483767
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an immigrant living in a foreign land or a refugee fleeing from war, violence, or natural disaster? I know, for I am one. Being an immigrant and a refugee was not easy, but it has taught me many lessons. One is the importance of being in solidarity with the millions of people who are displaced all over the globe. Although my parents originally came from North Viet Nam, I was actually born and raised in the South of my homeland.
