{"id":29046,"date":"2024-12-23T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T18:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/never-underestimate-what-neighbors-can-do-for-neighbors-the-small-town-that-teamed-up-to-take-in-two-families\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T18:04:24","slug":"never-underestimate-what-neighbors-can-do-for-neighbors-the-small-town-that-teamed-up-to-take-in-two-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/never-underestimate-what-neighbors-can-do-for-neighbors-the-small-town-that-teamed-up-to-take-in-two-families\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Never underestimate what neighbors can do for neighbors:\u2019 the small town that teamed up to take in two families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when support for immigration is waning, the people of Stone Ridge, New York, adopted Afghan refugees \u2013 and helped them build a new life<\/p>\n<p>Every third Thursday evening, an episcopal church in upstate New York transforms into an Afghan takeaway restaurant. It\u2019s a \u201cvery foodie congregation\u201d, says the Rev Marcella Gillis. The church does not charge the fledgling catering company overseen by Saida Faqirzada, a refugee from Kabul, for use of its gleaming commercial kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>That decision, unsurprisingly, reminds Gillis of a familiar biblical parable. Several bystanders pass by a distressed person who has been mugged, who beaten up, robbed and left for dead. They say, \u201cI\u2019m not allowed to help them. I shouldn\u2019t help them. Someone else will help them.\u201d So they walk past.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/23\/afghan-refugees-stone-ridge-community-support\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when support for immigration is waning, the people of Stone Ridge, New York, adopted Afghan refugees \u2013 and helped them build a new life Every third Thursday evening, an episcopal church in upstate New York transforms into an Afghan takeaway restaurant. It\u2019s a \u201cvery foodie congregation\u201d, says the Rev Marcella Gillis. The &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Never underestimate what neighbors can do for neighbors:\u2019 the small town that teamed up to take in two families\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/never-underestimate-what-neighbors-can-do-for-neighbors-the-small-town-that-teamed-up-to-take-in-two-families\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Never underestimate what neighbors can do for neighbors:\u2019 the small town that teamed up to take in two families\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}