ABSTRACT
A successful programme that witnesses to the importance of showing hospitality to strangers and of concrete and real service to refugees is one begun by Ethiopian Orthodox immigrants to the United States who settled in Columbus, Ohio. The legacy of national identity is preserved, it would seem, in the ethnic customs and traditions that are frequently celebrated in Orthodox churches in the Americas. President Donald Trump has strongly criticised the so-called ‘family migration’ options and closed off many of the avenues by which even well-established American citizens might bring in relatives from their ancestral homelands. The Hispanic population of the United States is becoming its second-largest ‘minority’ displacing African Americans in that status. And the growth of the number of residents and citizens from East and South Asia and Africa has changed the culture in profound ways.
