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Inspired
Inspired is the nation's leading public radio show about faith, ethics and spirituality. Each week we offer you analyses of the big headlines alongside lesser-told stories – those of Orthodox Jewish artists and African-American atheists, Muslim feminists and spiritual seekers. Through these stories, a rough sketch of our country’s religious landscape begins to emerge. It’s a marketplace of beliefs and ideas too complex for sound bites, and too important to ignore.
This week on Interfaith Voices:
Welcome to America
We catch up with volunteers from the non-profit Kindworks, who were setting up an apartment for a family of Afghan refugees in a Washington, D.C. suburb, and find out what drives people to help those who come to this country with almost nothing. Then we talk to Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, who heads one of the nine groups tasked by the federal government to resettle refugees in the U.S. Vignarajah is the first non-Lutheran CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. We wanted to know what has changed for resettlement agencies such as LIRS since Donald Trump became president.
Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
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Reaching Out To Refugees
We continue our conversation with Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, who talks about her own faith tradition and what it means for her, as a non-Lutheran, to head LIRS — one of the largest refugee resettlement agencies in the U.S. She talks about the fine line she walks between working with the government to help refugees and criticizing U.S. policy when she sees it hurting them. Vignarajah explains how even those who support President Donald Trump can reject his restrictive approach to immigration, and how ordinary people can aid a refugee in crisis.
A Refugee Gives Back
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