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According to the United Nations, last year some eight million people around the world were displaced from their homes by conflict and social upheaval\u2014the largest number ever recorded in a single year. This coming week (May 23-24), as the UN convenes the first World Humanitarian Summit, correspondent Kim Lawton talks with prominent Roman Catholic theologian and ethicist Rev. David Hollenbach SJ about the global refugee crisis and the moral obligations he believes the US government and individual Americans have to respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe rich nations of the north, like us, have the capability and therefore the responsibility, to admit a larger number of asylum seekers and even more, I would say, to assist these poorer countries who are already hosting most of the world\u2019s refugees. The funds being provided by this burden-sharing by us in the north need to be substantially increased,\u201d says Rev. David Hollenbach, SJ, director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College. 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