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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: World Refugee Day: Fighting for Justice with Giulia McPherson of Jesuit Refugee Service
Description: Every minute, 24 people are forced to leave their home because of war, persecution or violence.
Experts estimate that there are more people who have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict than at any other point since World War II.
We are in midst of a global refugee crisis.
In over 50 countries where the crisis is the worst, the Jesuits are there. Jesuit Refugee Service, which was founded in 1980 by then-Jesuit superior general Pedro Arrupe, serves over 640,000 people around the world each year.
June 20 is World Refugee Day, which is celebrated annually to lift up refugees and raise...