by Jon Parks | Jun 5, 2020 | Opinion
I still remember our first visit to the Lunik 9 settlement in Kosice, Slovakia. By that time, nearly eight years ago, the neighborhood was already known as one of the largest Roma slums in Central Europe. It seemed out of place – an ugly holdout of poverty in a...
by Shane McNary | Apr 10, 2019 | Opinion
We try to incorporate some of the history of the Roma as part of the ministry to short-term teams. That, sadly, includes the experience of the Roma at the family camp in Birkenau. We have hosted so many short-term ministry teams on visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau, that I...
by Jonathan Luxmoore | Sep 20, 2010 | News
WARSAW (RNS/ENInews) A Catholic bishop in Romania has deplored the mass expulsion of Roma from France, and he urged European governments to do more to integrate the continent’s Gypsy minorities. “There are substantial Roma communities in all European countries, not...
by Carla Wynn Davis | Aug 19, 2009 | News
A handful of Roma teenagers were just beginning to believe they could dream big dreams for their lives. But those dreams – of overcoming the stereotypes and expectations of being born a “Hungarian Gypsy” – are now at risk. The New York Times recently...
