Migration agreement with Rwanda: the Archbishop of Canterbury denounces it in turn
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, first dignitary of the Anglican Church (here in 2019) took his turn and denounced this Easter Sunday the migration agreement concluded Thursday April 14 between the United Kingdom and Rwanda.
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On this Easter Sunday, the Archbishop of Canterbury – the highest dignitary of the Anglican Church – Justin Welby called for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
But he especially took advantage of the mass of the holiest day for Christians, to denounce the migration program of the government, which wishes to “relocate” migrants who arrived illegally in Great Britain in Rwanda.
A very political mass...
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with our correspondent in London,
Emeline Vin
In his most important sermon of the year, Archbishop Justin Welby says the government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda poses serious ethical questions… “
Details are for politics and politicians.
The principle [of the plan] must pass the judgment of God and it cannot.
He is unable to bear the weight of the justice of the resurrection, of life triumphing over death.
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For the government, this 150 million euro plan should make it possible to counter the networks of smugglers.
An “impious” program for the primate of England, which continues.
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Outsourcing our responsibilities, even to a country with good intentions like Rwanda, is contrary to the nature of God, who himself took responsibility for our mistakes on the Cross.
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Announced Thursday
by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, this plan - beyond this reaction from the Archbishop of Canterbury - has already provoked an outcry: the opposition and nearly 200 NGOs have denounced the British-Rwandan partnership and
a “sub-contracting” of the migratory question
… The Minister of the Interior had to go through in force in the face of the reservations of her teams.
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