Thank you so very much, Wriley Nelson, for that beautifully written article that captures, in scope and in essence, not only the story of Molyvos and the book itself, but the importance and magnitude of the challenge that is ours in the face of the global refugee crisis.…
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Molyvos
In the last months of 2014, a backwater fishing village on the Greek island of Lesvos became the epicenter of the global refugee crisis. Molyvos, an increasingly popular tourist destination that sits just across the four mile-wide Straits of Mytilene from Turkey, suddenly became the entryway to the European Union for thousands of refugees.…