{"id":6208,"date":"2016-10-25T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/25\/local-global-responses-to-the-refugee-crisis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:53:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:53:58","slug":"local-global-responses-to-the-refugee-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-global-responses-to-the-refugee-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Local &#038; Global Responses to the Refugee Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2016\/10\/25\/columnist-local-and-global-responses-refugee-crisis\/92674008\/\">The Greenville News<\/a>, Furman University Religion Professor Dr. Alfons Teipen looks at the refugee elements and themes found in three faiths:\u00a0\u00a0Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Despite the lessons and heritage of these belief systems in welcoming strangers, he says, \u00a0&#8220;&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0receiving refugees with kindness is not always easy: people who think, look, and pray differently than we are often perceived as a threat; a challenge to our ways of living and thinking and worshiping &#8230; Ironically, suspicion appears to be particularly strong toward refugees from the Middle East, the very region of the world that gave birth to all three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.&#8221; Teipen&#8217;s guest column appears as many campus and off-campus groups come together in a series of events that kicks off Oct. 26, &#8220;Refugee Crisis: Local and Global Responses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary in The Greenville News, Furman University Religion Professor Dr. Alfons Teipen looks at the refugee elements and themes found in three faiths:\u00a0\u00a0Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Despite the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}