Churches’ Refugee Network: HOME OFFICE CONSULTATION ON Reforming support for failed asylum seekers and other illegal migrants: 2015 CRC response
We respond to this consultation as an ecumenical network of churches engaged in ministry to asylum seekers and refugees based on our strategic location in local communities across the UK. We believe that, in our society, collective moral concern must go alongside collective moral responsibility – and that Christian social and political reflection is part of the national discernment.
Our starting-point is the theological affirmation that every human being is created in God’s image. When we treat any one with less than proper dignity and respect, we are guilty of wronging them. This high evaluation of the worth and dignity of each human being is the indispensable context for evaluating the actions of any State, including the UK. Each person seeking asylum is an individual, not a number, and each individual’s circumstances and claims needs proper attention. Continue reading “CRC: Reforming support for failed asylum seekers and other illegal migrants”