Tears: Excerpts from an RSC/Nairobi caseworker's journal
Friday, October 18, 2013
A mother and three small children shuffle into my room. Her story is typical of this group of Somali refugees militia attacked her home, shot her father, and beat her mother with the butts of their guns. She fled and in the chaos, was separated from her mother and brother. She walked with her sister to the border, entered Kenya in 1992 and moved to the refugee camp, where she's lived ever since.

Host a 'Visionaries' documentary viewing party
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
It's confirmed! Two "Visionaries" documentaries featuring the refugee resettlement and development work of Church World Service will be distributed to PBS-TV stations for airing beginning in December, kicking off the independently produced series' 18th season.

CWS resettles 5,871 refugees in FY 2012, also serves 8,389 Cuban entrants
Thursday, October 11, 2012
In FY 2012 (Oct. 1, 2011-Sept. 30, 2012), Church World Service resettled 5,871 refugees toward a U.S. Refugee Admissions Program total of 58,238.

From Bhutan to Lancaster, Pa.: Chanda and Tika's refugee journey
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Growing up in a refugee camp in Nepal, Chanda Timsina had heard of California and New York but not Lancaster, Pa.! Among the very first refugees from Bhutan to come to the United States in 2009, Chanda quickly perceived that most people in Lancaster hadn't heard of Bhutan or Nepal, either.

'Visionaries' documenting CWS refugee resettlement and development work
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
'Visionaries' - an independently produced program that airs on many PBS-TV stations - will kick off its 18th season in November by profiling Church World Service in a two-part series featuring the agency's refugee resettlement and development work.

How welcoming are we? Realities of Christian hospitality and U.S. migration policies
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Hospitality, as depicted in shared sacred texts, is referred to in terms of welcoming the stranger. When we welcome others into our homes, at our tables and into our lives, we are practicing the hospitality of Abraham - the hospitality at the core of our traditions that allows the impossible to happen and gives us hope.

A new home for case processing and cultural orientation in Nairobi
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
On July 20, CWS began a new chapter in its more than 20 years helping African refugees access the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program with the opening of the new offices of the CWS-operated Resettlement Support Center Africa, in Nairobi, Kenya.

'The power of love has held us together!' - Rhems UMC welcomes refugees
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
The small, rural congregation of Rhems United Methodist Church has shared the joys and sorrows of numerous refugees resettled to New Bern, N.C. - and has been transformed in the process.