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Go and Do Likewise, an Austin-area initiative of local Episcopal churches, helps immigrant families seeking asylum find stability through locating and furnishing short-term housing in the area.
The Agency for New Americans (ANA) is the arm of the Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) [1] in Boise, Idaho, which serves the primary and secondary enculturation needs of refugees.
Walmsley was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Church of Connecticut in 1979 and became the 12th Bishop Diocesan from 1981 to 1993. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] In this capacity, he helped advance the church's stance on race, immigrants, refugees, social ministry, and caring for people living with HIV/AIDS. [ 3 ]
Church World Service (CWS) was founded in 1946 and is a cooperative ministry of 37 Christian denominations and communions, providing sustainable self-help, development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance around the world. The CWS mission is to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice at the national and international ...
Others include Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, the Ethiopian Community Development Council, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the International Rescue Committee, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and World Relief. [53]
Early actors in assisting refugees were the International Rescue Committee, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), and Church World Service (CWS) who helped thousands of refugees resettle in cities throughout the United States before the end of 1946. In the early stage of refugee resettlement in the U.S., faith communities in the United ...
Currently, nine national voluntary agencies resettle refugees nationwide on behalf of the U.S. government: Church World Service, Ethiopian Community Development Council, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee ...
Episcopal Relief & Development is an international relief and development agency of the Episcopal Church. It was established in 1940 as the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief. Episcopal Relief and Development works in approximately 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and the Middle East.