Refugees

Bishop of Dover Rose Hudson-Wilkin Channel migrants

As a child drowns in the Channel, the Bishop of Dover demands action

August 20, 2020
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"What are we waiting for?" asked the Rt Rev'd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Bishop of Dover. "Our children are being washed up on our beaches," she lamented, after the body of a teenage Sudanese boy was found on a beach in Sangatte,…

Channel migrants: the greatest kindness we can show is to send them straight back to France

January 2, 2019
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The Bishop of Dover the Rt Rev'd Trevor Willmott has called for a kind and compassionate response to the Channel migrants – those from Iran or Iraq who are desperately…

Spectator Archbishop Justin Welby mugged

Spectator urges knife attack on Archbishop of Canterbury

December 17, 2018
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Peace on earth and good will toward men? Not from the Spectator toward Justin Welby there isn't. The magazine has just published its Christmas edition which includes a Santa's wish-list…

Trump Palestine Palestinian Refugees Refugee definition

Amidst all the buffoonery, Trump is right to reject the Palestinian definition of ‘refugee’

November 7, 2018
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I never expected much good to originate from the election of the Buffoon. Sure, the fact that Hillary Clinton will from time unto eternity be remembered as 'she who enabled…

Accepting more child refugees from Calais prolongs the heartache of those already in care

January 24, 2018
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It appears that the perfidious French have ‘got one over on us’ again. Prime Minister Theresa May has agreed with President Macron to pay additional monies to assist the control…

Grenfell Tower tragedy becomes an anti-Tory hate-fest

June 16, 2017
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Perhaps only those who have lost everything can even begin to understand the trauma of the Grenfell Tower inferno. And even then, the loss that comes with abandonment or flood…

Bishop of Liverpool urges Christians to vote Conservative

April 19, 2017
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It was a very, very subtle exhortation tweeted by the Rt Rev'd Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool. So subtle, in fact, as to be (he would insist) a totally undetectable…

Speaker Bercow’s Trump ban is political, but his wig abolition is a greater contempt

February 7, 2017
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You don't have to be fan of Donald Trump not to feel a certain disquiet at the summary proclamation of Speaker Bercow that the President of the United States will…

Trump: Brexit will be a great thing; the EU is basically a German racket

January 16, 2017
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"You look at the European Union and it’s Germany. Basically a vehicle for Germany," says Donald Trump in Michael Gove's scoop interview for The Times. It comes as a cyclone…

Church denounces Austria’s ‘far-right’ Norbert Hofer for campaign poster invoking God

October 26, 2016
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Norbert Hofer is the presidential hopeful of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in the forthcoming election (which is being re-run in December owing to previous electoral irregularities). The Freedom…

“I always wonder where those who call themselves ‘Progressive’ are progressing to”

September 23, 2016
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Goodness! Well here in Barchester we are preparing for ‘World Peas Day’ and it promises to be a splendid, inclusive event! Mrs. Giblets (our cook) and I have been preparing…

The Great Wall of Calais: "At last, somebody is doing something!"

September 9, 2016
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Goodness! I was watching a slug leave its trail of slime across the garden path this morning and thought to myself, ‘Poor Mr. Vaz, has his brilliant career lead to…

Calais unaccompanied refugee children: Welby grills and Government blathers

September 7, 2016
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Question: "To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to speed up the reuniting of refugee children in the camps of Calais and Dunkirk with their families in…

Anglican schism: "First we had Brexit – now we have Evangexit!"

September 2, 2016
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Goodness! Schism breaks out in Tunbridge Wells! In my day it was Dr. Pusey who rattled ecclesiastical cages, not to mention Bishop Colenso of Natal, but now it seems…

Kirk: "We're not telling you how to vote, but a vote to leave the EU would be sin"

June 16, 2016
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The Rev'd Dr Richard Frazer, convener of the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland, didn't use the 's' word. In fact, he told BBC Radio's Good…

EU immigration: Farage and Welby clash over "legitimising racism"

June 9, 2016
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During his appearance before the Home Affairs Select Committee, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby insisted he was not supporting either side in the EU Referendum campaign. Well, for…

The Home Office's shameful treatment of Christian asylum seekers

June 8, 2016
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A few years ago we had a popular children’s song at my church that started like this: You won’t get to heaven on the back of a camel, And…

Open Doors demands action on behalf of persecuted Christians in Nigeria

May 3, 2016
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Have you ever been to an open-air church service? Not those of the balmy British summerness where the vicar sets up a pulpit on the village green and children…

TGI Monday: Should we allow Calais Jungle refugees to enter the UK?

March 28, 2016
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One of the TGI Monday team wanted a week off (it being Easter and all), so it's the Rev'd (former policeman) Dan Stork Banks on his own for this…

Boko Haram burns children alive, but no EU 'open door' to Nigerian refugees

February 2, 2016
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Some two thousand miles away in Deir ez-Zur, Syria, Islamists have besieged the city of 120,000 souls. Women are raped in the street, men beheaded on the banks of…