CofE For Refugees
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Official account for CofE Refugee responses. Tweeting about issues relating to Asylum and Refugees, especially Refugee Community Sponsorship.
Church House, Westminster
Joined November 2017
Are you a CofE group who has been involved in community sponsorship of refugees? We would love to hear from you as we develop our new strategy. Please take a minute to fill in our survey https://t.co/lYTNMeDteR
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Join us online on Monday 18th December at 6pm (GMT) to discuss asylum and migration in the UK with leading experts from across Europe, including @BishopPaulB @ResetUKorg @awon_program @CanterburyDio🌍 Register at: https://t.co/Flsfcr7hCM
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#RefugeeWeek2023 Working away ready for Report Stage of #IllegalMigrationBill has some sense of appropriateness but does not feel like celebrating the wonderful gift refugees are for us.
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Faith organisations are marking #RefugeeWeek in a number of ways. Here, @CofeForRefugees encouraging take up of the community sponsorship scheme.
This #RefugeeWeek we would love to encourage churches and local communities to consider getting involved in community sponsorship to help support refugees.
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What a lovely film! Please watch and share. #WorldRefugeeDay
I am proud of how many churches and communities have been involved in the Community Sponsorship scheme, fulfilling the call from Jesus to welcome the stranger. 1/2
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A wonderful film put together by our @CompCommunities team. Find out more about community sponsorship:
I am proud of how many churches and communities have been involved in the Community Sponsorship scheme, fulfilling the call from Jesus to welcome the stranger. 1/2
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I am proud of how many churches and communities have been involved in the Community Sponsorship scheme, fulfilling the call from Jesus to welcome the stranger. 1/2
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To mark #RefugeeWeek, faith leaders, including Church leaders from across denominations, have come together to show their support for refugees and to stand against the Illegal Migration Bill. Because it’s #WhoWeAre
#TogetherWithRefugees #HospitalityNotHostility
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You won't be on your own, we already have lots of projects and our national representative Domenica Pecoraro who can help guide and advise you through the process
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This #RefugeeWeek we would love to encourage churches and local communities to consider getting involved in community sponsorship to help support refugees.
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@BishopPaulB and @BishopSouthwark will be speaking to amendments supported by @Bishopviv1 as the lead bishop on modern slavery which seek to improve provisisions of support and which seek to remove clauses which would undermine victims of slavery. Watch at
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Day 4 of committee stage of the #IllegalMigrationBill is underway. Today debate will begin with a series of debates about how the proposals will impact upon victims of modern slavery. 1/2
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The House of Lords sat throughout the night, only rising at 4.15am, to give essential scrutiny to Govt's Illegal Migration Bill, on such issues as detention of children & pregnant women. @BishopSouthwark spoke after 2am, supporting amendments on vulnerable people in detention.
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And thank you to @BishopSouthwark for sticking it out too and speaking in favour of the amendments which @BishGloucester has co-sponsored highlighting the moral concerns with what is proposed. Debate is still going at
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Frankly disgraceful that the govt, having only allowed the barest minimum debate in the commons, is insisting that debate on whether pregnant women should be subject to detention and the use of force is taking place only after midnight when most peers have had to go home. 1/
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This from @MigrationWatch is untrue. The Archbishop of Canterbury has not said we must grant asylum to all who seek it. Unless 'effectively' in this context means, 'not actually'.
If senior people like the Archbishop of Canterbury effectively say we must grant asylum to all who seek it, however they get here, all it does is encourage more to come... 😡
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All the speeches, questions etc. from the bishops on the Illegal Migration Bill in the Lords are collected here: https://t.co/tqqtioTv2A
churchinparliament.org
On Monday the Bishop of @CofE_Cov supported an amendment by @AlfDubs to the Illegal Migration Bill. He said: "Preventing people from exercising their right under international law to even claim asylum is neither workable nor a morally credible position." https://t.co/gIIARQ8OY7
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You can follow all speeches and debates here from about 4pm until around midnight. https://t.co/wicgUObRnt
@churchstate
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He is also speaking on what standards and rules will apply to new migrant detention centres, and on time limits for children to held in detention. Depending on progress the @BishGloucester also has an amendment on restricting the detention of pregnant women 2/
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Day 3 of committee stage on #IllegalMigrationBill today in the House of Lords. The Bishop of Durham @bishoppaulb will be speaking to a string of amendments inc. on what financial and housing support will be given to asylum seekers who are deemed inadmissible 1/
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You can follow the first of several days of debate in the Lords from about 4pm today on https://t.co/XvEHl3ITxF Bishop @Guli_FD and @JustinWelby will be following proceedings day and speaking on amendments to the first part of the bill.
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