How Dallas Became One of America’s Most Refugee-Friendly Cities

BuzzFeed’s Anne Helen Petersen reports that an organization called Gateway to Grace is mobilizing Texas’s Christian community to foster loving relationships with refugees in need. Samira Page, the founder of Gateway, who is an Episcopalian minister and Iranian refugee, said, “When we talk about refugees or Muslims, it’s all abstract, but when you meet a young mom, or see a smiling child, you see: That’s a mom like me. That’s just a child!”

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