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Refuge is a place or state of safety. It may also refer to a more specific meaning: Safety. Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by ...
In English, the term refugee derives from the root word refuge, from Old French refuge, meaning "hiding place". It refers to "shelter or protection from danger or distress", from Latin fugere, "to flee", and refugium, "a taking [of] refuge, place to flee back to".
In the Book of Numbers, the laws concerning the cities of refuge state that, once he had claimed asylum, a perpetrator had to be taken from the city and put on trial; [5] if the trial found that the perpetrator was innocent of murder, then the perpetrator had to be returned under guard (for their own protection) to the city in which they had claimed asylum. [6]
A place of refuge includes various places where people can seek refuge: An asylum (antiquity), in antiquity, a place (usually a temple) where people could seek refuge; A sovereign offering the right of asylum; A sanctuary, a place offering safety from persecution; Place of refuge for ships, for ships in distress
A milestone in the U.S. sanctuary city movement occurred in 1985 in San Francisco, which passed the largely symbolic “City of Refuge” resolution. A 1985 city ordinance prohibited the use of city funds and resources to assist federal immigration enforcement—the defining characteristic of a sanctuary city in the US. [ 21 ]
An area of refuge or safe room [1] is a place in a building designed to hold occupants during a fire or other emergency when evacuation may not be safe or possible. Occupants can wait there until rescued or relieved by firefighters .
The Bible names six cities as being cities of refuge: Golan, Ramoth, and Bosor, on the east of the Jordan River, [1] and Kedesh, Shechem, and Hebron on the western side. [2] There is also an instance of Adonijah, after a failed coup, seeking refuge from the newly anointed Solomon by grasping the horns of a sacrificial altar. [3]
A refuge is a concept in ecology, in which an organism obtains protection from predation by hiding in an area where it is inaccessible or cannot easily be found. Due to population dynamics , when refuges are available, populations of both predators and prey are significantly higher, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and significantly more species can be supported in ...