Refugee Week 2022 - Act for Peace

Which definition most accurately describes a 'refugee'?

• A person who is forced to leave their homes for many reasons, including conflict and violence

• A pop group

• A person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions

• A person who is stranded in the ocean

Answer explanation

Refugee’ is used commonly to refer to people who are forced to leave their homes for many reasons, including conflict and violence. Sometimes it is used to also refer to a person displaced due to a natural disaster environmental change.

How many refugees did Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program decide to accept in 2020-2021?

• 5

• 13,750

• 400,450

• 20,040

Answer explanation

The Minister for Immigration sets the number of people that Australia will take in and determines the priorities for deciding who will be accepted.

True or false? Most people seeking asylum arrive by boat.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Fact: Most people seeking asylum arrive by air.

How many people in the world were forcibly displaced from their home as of the end of 2020?

• 82,4000 people

• 824,000 people

• 8.24 million people

• 82.4 million people

Answer explanation

The top five countries of origin make up 68% of refugees worldwide:

• Syria, with 6.7 million

• Venezuela, with 4 million

• Afghanistan, with 2.6 million

• South Sudan, with 2.2 million

• Myanmar, with 1.1 million

Children make up -- of the world’s refugees in 2020.

• 14%

• 42%

• 31%

• 65%

Answer explanation

Far too many refugee boys and girls are living in conditions not suitable for children, with limited access to education and healthcare, no freedom of movement, and almost entirely dependent on aid.

True or false? It is illegal to be an asylum seeker.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Fact: Everyone has the right to seek asylum if your life or freedom is threatened.

True or false? Boat arrivals are fakers and are not real refugees.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Often, people coming by boat are accused of not being ‘genuine’ refugees, even though historically, between 70 and 100% of them have been found to be refugees.

As of 31 December 2021, the average period of time for people held in detention was -- days.

(Source: Australian Government Department of Home Affairs)

• 7

• 350

• 545

• 689

Answer explanation

Australia is stopping people seeking asylum from coming (by boat or plane). If any do come by boat, they are sent to Nauru or Papua New Guinea to be ‘processed’ for years, and are being left to languish there with little prospect of living safely and supporting themselves.

The bible says, "Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in -- ."

• Egypt

• Israel

• Jerusalem

• Bethel

Answer explanation

Jesus follows the Old Testament pattern and takes it a step further by saying that how we treat strangers indicates whether we are his followers. We are to invite the stranger in if we are his disciples.

I can be kind and compassionate by -

(There may be more than one correct answer!)

• lending a hand to someone in need.

• sharing my resources like money.

• praying for people who are in danger.

• learning more about the situation of people who are in need.

Answer explanation

Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers for by doing that some have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.—Hebrews 13:1-2