UK Bishop Criticizes Plan to Send Asylum Seekers to Rwanda

The UK government should lift up people seeking protection, not compound their difficulties, the Episcopal lead for migration in England and Wales said in response to Britain’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. Bishop Paul McAleenan criticized the scheme as being at odds with the Bible.

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