Jesuit Refugee Service

• Jesuit Refugee Service Assisting Refugees From Somalia

NAIROBI, Kenya, ROME and WASHINGTON, July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- In the midst of one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent times affecting the Horn of Africa, Jesuit Refugee Service has announced plans to step up ongoing work for Somalis in Ethiopia and Kenya, and establish new services in the former. (http://bit.ly/ pz4WiX) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110413/MM82818LOGO)

• U.S. Newswire
• July 26, 2011

• Jesuit Refugee Service Utilizes Internet to Bring Higher Education to Isolated Refugees

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Refugees in Kakuma refugee camp in the scrubland of northwestern Kenya now have access to higher education, following the launch by Jesuit Refugee Service of a distance-education project in collaboration with U.S. universities. The Jesuit Commons -- Higher Education at the Margins project offers a dynamic and flexible model of higher education to refugees, promoting education as a fundamental human right. In Kakuma, at least 100 refugees are expected to participate in the new program during the first year.

• U.S. Newswire
• April 06, 2011

• Duy Dac Ho, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Joseph Greene, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent-Appellant. Loi Tan Nguyen, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Joseph Greene, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent-Appellant. American Immigration Lawyers Association, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyer'S Guild, Justice Information Center, Inc., Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Advocates, World Organization Against Torture Usa, Jesuit Refugee Service, International Human Rights Law Group, and the Extradition and Human Rights Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association, University of Colorado Legal Aid & Defender Program, Amici Curiae., 204 F.3d 1045 (10th Cir. 2000)

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• Federal Circuits

• Jesuit Refugee Service Commemorates 30 Years of Putting Refugees First

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On November 14, 1980 - in a world dominated by ideology and repression - Jesuits moved to meet the humanitarian and educational needs of the Vietnamese boat people, and Jesuit Refugee Service was born. As we mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of Jesuit Refugee Service by Fr. General Pedro Arrupe, S.J., the reality of our modern world is quite sobering. There are tens of millions more refugees, internally displaced people, and asylum seekers today than there were in 1980.

• U.S. Newswire
• November 11, 2010

• Jesuit Refugee Service/Usa Welcomes New National Director

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fr. Michael A. Evans, S.J. today becomes the sixth National Director of Jesuit Refugee Service/USA. Fr. Evans succeeds Fr. Kenneth J. Gavin, S.J., who next year becomes Assistant Director of Jesuit Refugee Service International in Rome. Fr. Evans served from 1990 through 1996 as the JRS Eastern Africa Regional Director and from 2000 through 2010 as Development Director and Treasurer of the Jesuit province of Eastern Africa. Fr. Evans' broad experience and knowledge of JRS will serve him well and will ensure a smooth transition as he helps lead JRS/USA into a future of continued accompaniment, service and defense of refugees in need.

• U.S. Newswire
• October 18, 2010

• Jesuit Refugee Service/Usa Urges U.S. To Stop Deporting Haitians

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security again deported Haitians from the United States to Haiti, a nation still reeling from the fall- out of a devastating earthquake, endemic cholera, and unable to provide adequate shelter, food, and basic services for hundreds of thousands of its citizens. Nineteen people were deported today, and U.S. authorities confirmed they will be held in jails where cholera is rampant until family members come to claim them. No adequate response has been given to advocates regarding what will happen to long-time U.S. residents deported to Haiti who have no living family members in the Haitian capital.

• U.S. Newswire
• April 15, 2011

• Deporting Haitians Into Peril: A Disturbing Policy

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The recent decision by the U.S. government to resume the deportation of Haitians is wrong, and will put lives at risk while creating an additional problem for the maintenance of public order in beleaguered Haiti. Haiti is still struggling to recover from last January's earthquake, is in the midst of a cholera epidemic and is also embroiled in controversy over the recent presidential elections there. Deporting Haitians - especially those with criminal records - from the United States at this time is an unwise and dangerous policy. On Dec. 22, 2010, Jesuit Refugee Service/USA and other faith- based and legal services groups wrote to Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asking that the department reconsider th...

• U.S. Newswire
• January 07, 2011

• Lighten up, priest tells faithful; Author-caregiver's talk to aid stained glass project.

... spent some time helping East African refugees rebuild their lives. . "These people had a sense o... and a master's in theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology. . Inspired by a documentary ab..., he also worked with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Kenya, helping refugees start their own small b...

• Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Haitians in Dominican Republic Seek

Here I have no value," said Milenia Fis Pie, 20, a Haitian student born in the Dominican Republic. "If there was light, water, work and respect for youth in Haiti, I would go there to live. When Dominican President Leonel Fernandez visited Haiti in December, protesters angry over the Dominicans' treatment of Haitian migrants started rioting. At least three people were wounded by gunfire during clashes with police in Haiti's capital. "The Haitians are good when we need them and they're bad when we have to give them their rights," said the Rev. Regino Martinez, a Dominican who heads the Jesuit Refugee and Migration Service in Dajabon, where he has lived for 32 years.

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• July 27, 2009

• Muslims Make Up Largest Group of Immigrants in Italy

ROME - Visually speaking, the John Paul II Canteen is more IKEA cafe than soup kitchen. Tucked away in a pleasant hillside neighborhood in Rome, it has clean lines, attractive furniture, track lighting and framed photographs, making it a welcome oasis for the immigrants who stream in daily from shelters, homeless camps and crowded apartments. Strolling down the cafeteria line on a recent day, canteen coordinator Maurizio deStefano boasted about the quality of the free food, which today included farfalle pasta and meatballs, spinach, boiled eggs, cheese, bread and apples.

... the world, and the Poles were political refugees who were escaping communism. And so John Paul II f... Balleis, international director of the Jesuit Refugee Service, said his organization's philosoph...

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• August 09, 2010