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Jesuit Refugee Service UK calls dumping migrants at London bus station ‘culmination of cruelty’

by | Nov 5, 2022 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

A leading refugee organization has called the dumping of asylum seekers outside a bus station in London in the dead of night was the “culmination of so much cruelty” resulting from UK government’s “hostile environment” policy towards immigrants.

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JRS in Kenya joins Bishops’ call to keep migrant camps open

by | Apr 20, 2021 | , , , , , | 0 |

In a statement issued on Monday, JRS-Kenya “reaffirms the appeal from the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops and recommends that the Government of Kenya exert maximum forethought and caution in this particular time of uncertainty, wisely considering the legal obligations imposed by international law and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Convention.”

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Unless UK changes asylum policy, Channel deaths to happen ‘again and again’

by | Oct 30, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

With children dying in the English Channel, the UK’s leading Catholic refugee agency says the government is ramping up a policy “very likely to increase the risk of this happening again and again.”

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UK bishop calls for ‘meeting of minds’ on asylum after English Channel deaths

by | Oct 28, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

A “shifting of mindset” is needed for those making the UK’s immigration rules, according to the English bishops’ point man for migration.

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Pope’s new encyclical targets ‘divisive and unpleasant rhetoric’ on migration

by | Oct 8, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

In his latest encyclical, Pope Francis is speaking “directly to the divisive and unpleasant rhetoric which is so pervasive in our society” especially in the UK, according to the head of Britain’s leading Catholic refugee agency.

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