Can your congregation sponsor a refugee who urgently needs to be resettled in Canada?
Compared to 1979, when the United Church signed its first Sponsorship Agreement, the movement of peoples is more severely restricted, within and between countries. Media attention spans one desperate situation and moves on to another. Our heads become crowded and close down after seeing too many dramatic images.
In all parts of the world, desperate refugees remain. For some, sponsorship is the only solution. Does your community have the resources (human and financial) to give a refugee a home? When we help protect one refugee from persecution, death, or wasted years in a refugee camp, we save the world for that one person—and just maybe for ourselves too.
Statement on the Closure of Roxham Road
The United Church of Canada urges the government to fulfill its legal obligations to uphold refugees’ right to protection.
United Church Welcomes More than 100 Refugees
2022 was an interesting year for The United Church of Canada's Refugee desk. Here's a summary of the year's applications and arrivals.
Making a Home for Refugees: ChrisAnn Alvarez’s Work
YGM 2023: “There’s this huge misconception that refugees choose to be refugees,” says ChrisAnn Alvarez, Refugee Support at The United Church of… continue reading
“My Soul Is Fed” by Supporting Refugees
Norma McCord, a long-time United Church refugee program supporter, says the work is in her blood.