{"id":35884,"date":"2016-08-13T15:34:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=35884"},"modified":"2016-08-13T15:34:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:34:48","slug":"church-members-helping-with-the-worlds-massive-refugee-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/church-members-helping-with-the-worlds-massive-refugee-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"Church members helping with the world&#8217;s massive refugee problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35885\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Darfur_refugee_camp_in_Chad.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35885\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35885\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Darfur_refugee_camp_in_Chad.jpg\" alt=\"In Darfur, 2005\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2005 Wikimedia CC photo of a refugee camp in Darfur. The situation has grown much worse since then.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/welcoming-refugees-america\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cVIDEO: \u00a0Welcoming Refugees to America\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/refugees?lang=eng&amp;cid=rdb_v_IWasAStranger_eng_IWasAStranger\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cI Was a Stranger\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mormonchannel.org\/watch\/series\/give-back\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cGive Back\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so very pleased that the Church is actively engaged in this matter. \u00a0 May we be, too. \u00a0However small the contribution might be, it\u2019s still something. \u00a0Which is considerably better than nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from London, England<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cVIDEO: \u00a0Welcoming Refugees to America\u201d \u00a0 \u201cI Was a Stranger\u201d \u00a0 \u201cGive Back\u201d \u00a0 I\u2019m so very pleased that the Church is actively engaged in this matter. \u00a0 May we be, too. \u00a0However small the contribution might be, it\u2019s still something. \u00a0Which is considerably better than nothing. \u00a0 Posted from London, England \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Church members helping with the world&#039;s massive refugee problem<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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