{"id":735,"date":"2018-10-04T02:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=735"},"modified":"2018-10-09T02:06:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T02:06:45","slug":"video-director-of-jesuit-refugee-service-at-jafd-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2018\/10\/04\/video-director-of-jesuit-refugee-service-at-jafd-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Director of Jesuit Refugee Service at JAFD luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"993\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o_HpqP42bHw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Smolich, S.J., international director for the Jesuit Refugee Service, gave the talk, &#8220;The Society of Jesus&#8217; response to refugees,&#8221; at a luncheon of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jafdetroit.org\/\">Jesuit Alumni and Friends of Detroit<\/a>, Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Smolich addressed the refugee situation in the world today, the inspiring vision of Pedro Arrupe, S.J., who founded the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in 1980 as a response to the Vietnamese boat people crisis and what the work of the JRS might mean for us in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/jrs.net\/\">Jesuit Refugee Service<\/a> is a Catholic organization that aids refugees, forcibly displaced people and asylum seekers around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLgYOx6mewvXbyt3_QczT1jCD83XUAoEH2\">Click here to watch<\/a> more JAFD speakers over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Smolich, S.J., international director for the Jesuit Refugee Service, gave the talk, &#8220;The Society of Jesus&#8217; response to refugees,&#8221; at a luncheon of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,231,57,300,230,299,89],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2018\/10\/jafd_speaker.jpg?fit=1920%2C949&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-bR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}