Lift Off! 40 Days of Sacrifice - Day 39
Exodus 12:49
The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.
The first refugee legislation in the United States was the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, which brought 400,000 Eastern Europeans to the U.S. Other refugee-related legislation included the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 (which brought in 214,000 refugees fleeing communism) and the Fair Share Refugee Act of 1960 (which mostly brought those still living in displaced persons camps after World War II). The U.S. government also used the Attorney General’s humanitarian parole authority to bring refugees into the country, beginning in 1956 with Hungarian nationals and ending with hundreds of thousands of Indochinese refugees in the 1970s. (tgc.org)
Pray for our country's legislation to continue to allow refugees opportunities into our country. Pray also for other countries to continue their efforts to allow safe passage and stay in their borders as well. Pray lastly for not only the laws that govern these countries, but that God's law would be on the hearts of those who have no country or law to follow.
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