June 20, 2017
![A woman in New York walks past hundreds of refugee life jackets collected from the beaches of Greece Sept. 16, 2016. (CNS photo/Justin Lane, EPA)](http://dev.globalsistersreport.org/files/stories/images/CNS-refugee%20j%20%281000x618%29.jpg)
"Whatever opinion many of us may have as to the cause of emigration, of the fact there is no question."
- Margaret Anna Cusack, Mother Clare, founder of Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace and quoted in Grave concern for immigrants and refugees [1] by Sr. Susan Rose Francois
June 20 is World Refugee Day [2]. The United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR, notes that there are more than 65 million people displaced in the world now — one in every 113 people.