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16 October 2008updated 09 Sep 2021 7:16am

Give them shelter

Christians are defying the law to help asylum-seekers

By Harriet Grant and Rachel Stevenson

In every major city, Christians of all deno minations – Anglicans, Catholics, Methodists and Quakers – are going to great lengths to support asylum-seekers threatened with deportation.

When asylum-seekers come to the end of the application process and have exhausted all appeals, their benefits are stopped, they lose their accommodation and they are told to accept a free flight home or face being forcibly removed.

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