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From Jesuit Refugee Service
In case you missed our online World Refugee Day event: Sharing the Lives of Refugees, in collaboration with the International Union Superiors General (UISG), we are sharing the link to the video below.
We left feeling inspired that we can all do one thing to bring hope to the 79.5 million displaced persons around the world. Father Tom Smolich, SJ, noted the temptation to be overwhelmed by this number, but to keep in mind that it is less than one percent of our world - asking "what if the other 99 percent of us could do one thing?"
Sister Patricia Murray, IBVM and Executive Secretary of UISG, concluded the event by responding to this call to action, suggesting that we can begin by walking alongside our migrant, refugee, and internally displaced brothers and sisters, "not out of a sense of charity and reaching out to them, but because we need them to open us to our own humanity."
We can all make a difference and today we invite you to do one thing.
Watch and Share the World Refugee Day Event 2020
Read the Testimony of Taban Patrick Consantino, SJ
In case you missed our online World Refugee Day event: Sharing the Lives of Refugees, in collaboration with the International Union Superiors General (UISG), we are sharing the link to the video below.
We left feeling inspired that we can all do one thing to bring hope to the 79.5 million displaced persons around the world. Father Tom Smolich, SJ, noted the temptation to be overwhelmed by this number, but to keep in mind that it is less than one percent of our world - asking "what if the other 99 percent of us could do one thing?"
Sister Patricia Murray, IBVM and Executive Secretary of UISG, concluded the event by responding to this call to action, suggesting that we can begin by walking alongside our migrant, refugee, and internally displaced brothers and sisters, "not out of a sense of charity and reaching out to them, but because we need them to open us to our own humanity."
We can all make a difference and today we invite you to do one thing.
Watch and Share the World Refugee Day Event 2020
Read the Testimony of Taban Patrick Consantino, SJ
