[Worldwide] 8.4 million people had a pending claim for asylum in mid-2025. An asylum‐seeker is an individual seeking international protection and whose claim for refugee status has not yet been determined. 

Be silent for a moment and consider: Have you ever been in a position where your safety, eve...

"Refugees are people who were forced to flee their country of origin in search of safety. To receive refugee protection, they have to prove that they could not find refuge within their homeland and that the authorities in their country either could not or would not protect them.” https://iafr.org/re...

There were 83.4 million internally displaced people in 2024: an increase of 7.5 million from the 2023 figure of 75.9 million. 

Be silent for a moment and consider: what might it feel like to have an unsafe home / city / country? And what if your options to find safety were extremely limited?

This ...

117,000 people were uprooted every day in 2025. 

Be silent for a moment and consider: have you ever been in a situation where you knew everything was likely to change in a moment, but you had little to no control over when or how it would happen? How did you feel?

It is very easy to take safety an...

"The number of forcibly displaced people worldwide increased by 7 million between January and December 2024. Until late 2025, the number of displaced people has increased every year for 13 years....Forcibly Displaced People include refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people. These are ...

“The number of forcibly displaced people has increased from 42 million in 2009 to 123 million in 2025. This number fell to 117.3 million in late 2025....The number of forcibly displaced people worldwide increased by 7 million between January and December 2024. Until late 2025, the number of displace...

"Refugees la sagrada familia" Artist: Kelly Latimore

Jesus is in the caravan.

It is Advent 2025, and life is as hard for migrants, refugees, and displaced people as it has ever been. Many borders are closed, agencies are hard-pressed to help, and even our neighbours are suspected of being dangerou...

From Bob Ekblad, creator of the Jesus OR Nationalism course

Submission as Resistance: Romans 13 in the light of Jesus & Psalm 2, vs. Charlie Kirk’s memorial service  Bob Ekblad The prophetic witness of Christians before the State has too often been muted ...

This week in a public meeting with all the four-star generals of the United States Military, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a "no more walking on eggshells policy." By this he means the US military will liberate its commanders and NCO's and no longer put "complainers, ideologues and poo...

Let's be honest: the world might be a little tired of Christians right now.

Fair enough. Christians have been awfully dominant in the Western world - and pretty active and influential in much of the rest of the world - for a very long time now. And despite the claims of persecution which politician...

What a time to be alive?

It feels like everyday there is a new catastrophe, a fresh indignity, more crisis and conflict on the global scene and in our domestic political, social and religious environments.

Some perspective is helpful. None of this is new. It is in our faces a lot more than it has ...

What do we do when the World wants more than we have to give? More than we should be giving it?

While teaching my students about powers, principalities and idols, I try to help them see that there is a predatory nature to these things: they want from us what does not rightly belong to them. Devotio...