Helpful Links

www.refugeechurches.org

The refugee church can often be found caring for their fellow refugees and even those in their surrounding host community. They defy common stereotypes and exhibit uncommon faith, joyful hospitality and sacrificial service as they care for those around them. This website seeks to raise the profile of refugee churches and those that are serving together with them.

AFRICA - INTERNATIONAL

AEA Relief and Development Commission - ARDC, seeks to empower and transform society through relief, rehabilitation and development. ARDC is a Christian respone to caring, collaboration, and transformational development in Africa. ARDC is a continental movement of evangelical churches and Christian agencies committed to discipling nations for Christ through collaborative action.

There is Hope is a Christian organisation which works with refugees in Malawi in order to bring holistic development into the lives of individuals, churches and the community as a whole, aiming to improve their living standards in the present and their opportunities for the future.

TORONTO

Christie Street Refugee Welcome Centre (Toronto, Canada)

Toronto, Canada. Christie Refugee Welcome Centre (CRWC), located in the heart of downtown Toronto, has been a shelter and safe haven for refugees for almost two decades. Approximately 400 refugees come through the Centre each year and receive the care, support and assistance needed to begin their new lives in Canada.

Matthew House (Toronto, Canada)

Toronto, Canada. Matthew House is a small shelter in central Toronto that welcomes and assists newly arrived refugee claimants who have come to the end of a long journey on the refugee highway.

VANCOUVER

Journey Home Community (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Vancouver, BC. (Canada). Journey Home Community serves Refugee Claimant Families in Vancouver by providing housing, resettlement assistance and relational support.

WINNIPEG

City Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

City Church is a healthy, vibrant, intentionally intercultural congregation in the core area of Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada). Also known as Grant Memorial Baptist Church.

AUSTRIA

Fellowship of Christian Refugees International (FCRI)

FCRI is a Nonprofit Christian Organization focused on serving refugees and all other people in the communities in which they live. We are evangelical and our goal is to make disciples of all nations in the world through loving God and others, connecting with others and connecting them to God and together serving the world.

The Oasis (International Teams)

We are an International Team of Christian missionaries serving refugees from around the world through word and deed.

KIT

Nydanskere er en ressource i det danske samfund. Deres kultur er et tiltrængt krydderi på den moderne tilværelse. Og deres kristne tro et godt udgangspunkt for fællesskab. Kirkernes Integrations Tjeneste vil både formidle kendskab, skabe kontakt og bruge lokale kirker og organisationer som base for brobygning mellem nye og gamle danskere.

Helping Hands (International Teams, Athens Refugee Center)

More than 1,000,000 of Greece 's' twelve million residents are refugees and ethnic minorities, most of them living in the greater Athens area. They include Albanians, Iraqis, Iranians, Afghanis, Kurdish, Ukrainians, Filipinos, Kenyans, Somalis, Sudanese, Ethiopians, etc. Helping Hands  with International Team's  missionaries work with Greek churches  as well as international churches  and ethnic fellowships  to reach these people.  Helping Hands  is involved in evangelism and discipleship, video presentations, teaching English & Greek, leadership training, retreats, prison ministry, hospitality, clothing distribution, women and Children ministry, Tea House ministry and housing and shelter ministries.

LEBANON

Heart for Lebanon

Our mission is to facilitate proper education, provide humanitarian aid, strengthen community development and promote leadership empowerment through catalytic partnerships and strategic mobilization.

US ASYLUM PROCEDURE AND APPLICATION

ImmiHelp.com (asylum procedure explained)

 US Application for Asylum (I-589)

Tucson Refugee Ministry (Tucson, Arizona)

Tucson, Arizona (USA). The Tucson Refugee Ministry is helping churches get involved in the refugee community in practical and tangible ways - including the adoption of newly arrived refugee families.

Exodus World Services (Chicago, Illinois)

Exodus World Service transforms the lives of refugees and volunteers. We educate local churches about refugee ministry, connect volunteers in relationship with refugee families through practical service projects, and equip leaders to speak up on behalf of refugees. The end result is that wounded hearts are healed, loneliness is replaced with companionship, and fear is transformed into hope.

International House (Ft. Wayne, Indiana)

International House is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization committed to sharing the love and light of Jesus Christ with refugees and other Internationals living in the Fort Wayne area.

International Association for Refugees

IAFR comes alongside of refugee churches in the world's largely forgotten refugee camps with personal encouragement, practical empowerment and strategic assistance.

IAFR is connecting the church at large with refugee churches in order to break their isolation through relationships that result in mutual encouragement and learning along with a foundation for strategic collaboration in our common mission.

World Relief Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota)

A Christian non-profit agency dedicated to the cause of the refugee empowering local churches to serve the most vulnerable, i.e., newly arrived refugees refugees, staff, members of faith communities, and volunteers learning to see Jesus reflected in the faces of each other stories that need telling – stories of men, women, and children surviving adversity and now as strangers making their home in the U.S.

International Nepal Fellowship (Omaha, Nebraska)

Omaha, Nebraska (USA). The INF is a Christian mission serving the Nepali people through health and development work with Nepal’s government, non-government organisations and local communities. The work is an expression of Christian compassion and evidence of God’s grace.

Awanas International - Children at Risk

Awana International Children-at-Risk Initiative is bringing the hope of the gospel to young lives that truly are among our world’s “least of these.” Facing unimaginable suffering on a daily basis, these children—including those living in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, or existing on the brink in city slums—are fragile and vulnerable. They desperately need to have not only their physical, but also their spiritual needs met.

International Association for Refugees (IAFR)

IAFR comes alongside of refugee churches in the world's largely forgotten refugee camps with personal encouragement, practical empowerment and strategic assistance.

IAFR is connecting the church at large with refugee churches in order to break their isolation through relationships that result in mutual encouragement and learning along with a foundation for strategic collaboration in our common mission.

International Teams is serving refugees in Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, the UK and the USA.

REACT Services is a consulting ministry that works primarily in global and multi-cultural outreach settings, serving as a catalyst, trainer and coach in the development of grass-roots partnering strategies. We provide core educational and training materials to leaders that strengthen and empower involvement in partnering.

A global network of churches and organisations that originally came together under the umbrella of the World Evangelical Alliance dedicated to serving forcefully displaced people.

From its founding in 1944 as the War Relief Commission until today, World Relief work helps churches help the poor and hungry.

Biblica

Biblica is one of the largest Bible and Christian literature ministries in the world. Biblica is the translation sponsor of the English-language New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, the most widely read contemporary English translation. Biblica translates the Bible into world languages that have 1 million or more speakers and distributes the Bible and basic spiritual formation literature to people who might never learn about Christ any other way.

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Cultural Orientation Resource Center

Multifaceted resource with a variety of resources to assist with orientation and integration into the USA.

Administrated by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, IRIN offers a wealth of current news, media and other resources.

Multi-Language JESUS Film DVDs The JESUS Film on DVD with up to 16 languages on each DVD at specially discounted prices. The All Nations JESUS film DVD series is being offered at a special discounted bulk price to encourage churches and groups to distribute the DVD freely to immigrants. You can purchase DVDs in lots of 50 for $125 per box ($2.50/DVD) by calling Harvest Resources at (800) 381-0911, from Canada call Power to Change Resource Centre Canada at (800) 667-0558. Ask for the All Nations DVD series.

A helpful website for our Somali-speaking friends.

REACT Services is a consulting ministry that works primarily in global and multi-cultural outreach settings, serving as a catalyst, trainer and coach in the development of grass-roots partnering strategies. We provide core educational and training materials to leaders that strengthen and empower involvement in partnering.

A resource designed to help refugees start businesses in the UK.

A UK based resource offering valuable information and practical opportunities to assist refugees in the UK.

An online resource to assist with reunification of refugees.

Multifaceted resource helping specifically with immigration, migration and integration resources for the Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA and UK.

AlertNet (Reuters)

Alerting humanitarians to emergencies.

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Forced Migration Review

A blog with a wealth of information pertaining to forced displacement.

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch is an international agency reporting on many flash points in the world generating forcefully displacement.

Humanitarian news and analysis (United Nations).

IAFR comes alongside of refugee churches in the world's largely forgotten refugee camps with personal encouragement, practical empowerment and strategic assistance. IAFR helps the church show up along the lonely crossroads of the Refugee Highway with a listening ear, a helping hand and an open heart. IAFR helps churches welcome and love refugees as they are resettled into our cities and communities.

An international NGO serving displaced people groups through assisted migration since 1951.

The IRC is an international humanitarian agency that has been assisting refugees since 1933.

Multifaceted resource related to migration, immigration and displacement.

North America. Developed by the SBC, peoplegroups.info is a powerful web based resource from which you can learn about the official demographics of your community (North America only).

A website created by Northwestern University students studying journalism and reporting on the lives of refugees in Chicago, Jordan, Malawi and Namibia.

Refworld is the leading source of information necessary for taking quality decisions on refugee status. Refworld contains a vast collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks.

Serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief community.

Although a few years old, this is a great BBC resource with maps, stories and editorials.

The UNHCR is a leading source of news, research and resources related to forcefully displaced people.

Stunning images from the Turkey-Greece border.

The USCRI is a leading source of news and research related to forcefully displaced people.

The Asylum and Refugee Resources section of the library of The Institute for Global Studies.