The terror, desperation and confusion described here among our brothers and sisters in #Afghanistan will be familiar to anyone who has been a refugee, migrant or internally displaced person; and anyone who has worked with or ministered to them... nytimes.com/2021/08/21/wor…
Almost every refugee I met while working in East Africa with JRS in the 1990s--Somalis, Ugandans, Sudanese, Rwandese, etc.--spoke in these same terms: the fear of death from violent regimes, the desperation of trying anything to escape, and the confusion about whom to trust...
It's hard to describe how the combination of these emotions can nearly paralyze a person during a time when they have to make life-changing decisions in a moment's notice, while praying that the people or organizations in whom they're placing their trust are in fact reliable...
I pray that we may learn from the political decisions that led to this humanitarian catastrophe and also that we might open our doors to as many Afghan refugees as possible. #AfghanistanCrisis
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