Therefore, tolerating the stranger is not enough. Accepting the stranger as a sister or brother is what is required. Only then are we blessed. Only then is their spirit and ours united. We need not make theological or scriptural leaps to identify with this ministry.
Scripture is full of injunctions and exhortations about extending hospitality to the stranger.
Aliens have been compared to angels in our presence. God's presence is revealed in surprising and unexpected ways such as through the struggles of refugees which become a source of inspiration and strength to us in our own spiritual journeys. The people of Israel were reminded in the Torah not to neglect the stranger as they too were once aliens. Christ rebukes the exclusiveness, the detached, sterile piety of the priest and levite who ignored their Galilean brother who lay bleeding by the roadside. He extolled the Samaritan who overlooked the historic enmity between Jews and Samaritans and assisted his brother.