In the midst of calls to cast out refugees, Bishop Sally Dyck traveled to Capitol Hill on Dec. 8 to add her voice to a coalition of other national faith leaders and three U.S. senators calling for lawmakers to show mercy. “Many young families find themselves between the violence behind them and the refusal of resettlement in some place with peace and safety, which is all that they really want,” she said. “I trust that our senators will not prevent these refugees from coming.” Bishop Dyck applauded Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, who was also at the press conference and has called for 100,000 Syrian refugees to be resettled in the U.S. The coalition urged congress to take a moral stand on refugee resettlement and to speak out against inflammatory rhetoric towards refugees and their families. Read more.