Refugees

Quiz

Quiz: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

This short true/false quiz on refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) has been revised with updated statistics.
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Film Discussion Guide

Film Discussion Guide: Voces Inocentes (Innocent Voices)

This striking movie tells the true story of a young boy in El Salvador who, during the country’s civil war, must choose between joining the military or the rebels. A synopsis, connections to CST...
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Toolbox

Refugee

This collection of resources on refugees includes the following:             Film Discussion Guide: Sentenced Home Quiz: Refugees and Internally...
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Film Discussion Guide

Sentenced Home

This documentary follows the journey of three young Cambodian-American refugees who find themselves entangled in a web built from a tragic past and an uncertain future. Included in this resource are:...
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Litany

Care of Our Common Home

This litany touches on many issues that affect all of us in our common home and invites each of us to act on behalf of the poorest in our global society.
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Prayer Service

Pope Francis’s 2016 World Day of Migrants and Refugees Message

This prayer service, entitled “Migrants and Refugees Challenge Us: The Response of the Gospel of Mercy,” uses words from Pope Francis’s message with a response that is meant to stir us into...
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Prayer Service

Mediterranean Sea: A Growing Graveyard for Migrants

This longer prayer service educates people of faith about the horrific plight of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. It lays out our Church's response to their quest for a life of...
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Prayer Service

Prayer Service: A Global Response to the Refugee Crisis

The Holy Family were refugees when they fled King Herod's wrath. The service includes quotes from Catholic Social Teaching and a prayer from Pope Francis.  
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Prayer

Pope Francis’ Prayer to Our Blessed Mother for Migrants

Pope Francis offered this prayer to Our Mother of Migrants, asking Mary to protect her lost and wandering children as they seek rest, welcome, refuge, and peace.  
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Prayer

Prayer for Asylum Seekers

In this short prayer, we call on God to watch over refugees and asylum seekers: those separated from their loved ones, those who are lost, and those who have been exiled from their homes.  
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Prayer

Prayer for Missing Children

May 25 is Missing Children's Day, and this prayer asks that parents of missing children and the children lost on refugee trails and separated from parents in conflict zones, will all know hope and...
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Pax Christi International: Crisis in Syria

This resource highlights the problems related to Syria and those affected by the war. It also calls people of faith to become engaged in learning about the situation so that we can all raise our...
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