Erol Kekic

Church World Service

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Director of the immigration and refugee program at Church World Service, a humanitarian agency; refugee from the war in the Balkans in the 1990's

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Four million people have fled from Syria during five years of civil war, and the number is still growing, and the massive humanitarian crisis is spreading from the Middle East to…

Will the US Shoulder the Burden of Refugees?

Four million people have fled from Syria during five years of civil war, and the number is still growing, and the massive humanitarian crisis is spreading from the Middle East to…

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