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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Krish O'mara Vignarajah, president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, about the efforts to welcome Ukrainian refugees in the U.S.

Everyone has a story. Jacob Atem, who fled Sudan as a child, told his at a Baltimore event. It's horrific, heartbreaking — and ultimately inspiring.

who express increasing resentment about the presence of some 700,000 Rwandan refugees in nearby camps. This week, with approval from the United Nations, Zaire's government launched a campaign to convince the refugees to return to Rwanda voluntarily.

Robert talks to Jan Vansina, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, about possible political ends to the crisis in Zaire. Vansina says that the difficult problem to resolve is how to return Hutu refugees to a Rwanda ruled by Tutsis...who may very well exact some kind of retribution agains the returning refugees.

Kate Seelye reports on how Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories are using the Internet to keep Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and elsewhere up-to-date on the intifada . The project is sponsored by the West Bank's Bir Zeit University. So far, three refugee camps are on-line, and plans are underway to include many more.

From Sulaymaniyah, Northern Iraq, NPR's Michael Goldfarb talks with Linda about the desperation of Kurdish refugees routed from their homes in northern Iraq by a rival faction supported by Saddam Hussein. The refugees say they have been deserted by the United Nations and the United States that for the past five years had provided them protection and aid from Saddam Hussein's forces.

For the second straight day, a river of Rwandan refugees is flowing out of eastern Zaire and returning to their homeland after two miserable years of exile in camps along the border. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the refugees, mostly ethnic Hutus, no longer seem afraid to live under the rival Tutsi-led government, and government authorities are welcoming their countrymen back home.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Kigali that Zairean Tutsi rebels today declared a unilateral three-week ceasefire. The guerrillas say the truce is designed to give more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees in Zaire a chance to go home. In the past two weeks, the rebels have captured all of the main cities along Zaire's border with Burundi and Rwanda, and foreign relief agencies have evacuated their staffs. There is little hope the refugees will return to Tutsi-controlled Rwanda, and relief groups say shortages of food and medicine could soon lead to mass starvation and epidemics among the refugees.

The visit by the leaders of the Eastern and Western churches to the island of Lesbos, planned for April 16, will signal support for migrants and refugees.

The storm dubbed Alexa has blown tents down in Syrian refugee camps and flooded parts of the Gaza Strip. It has also given Jerusalem its heaviest snowfall in 50 years, and Cairo its first snow in decades.