Faith leaders have written a letter to The Sunday Times newspaper calling on the UK government to ‘match the efforts of the Kindertransport and establish a lasting route to protection in the UK for 10,000 child refugees in future years’, as reported by Focus on Refugees.
The letter, on the third anniversary of the drowning of three-year-old Kurdish refugee Alan Kurdi, was signed among others by Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury), Commissioner Anthony Cotterill (Territorial Commander of The Salvation Army UK with Ireland), Revd Lynn Green (General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain), Rt Rev Paul Butler (Bishop of Durham), Rt Revd Christopher Chessun (Bishop of Southwark), Rt Revd Jonathan Clark (Bishop of Croydon), Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani (Bishop of Loughborough), Rt Revd David Hamid (Suffragan Bishop, Diocese of Europe), Rt Revd Peter Hill (Bishop of Barking), Rt Revd Adrian Newman (Bishop of Stepney), Rt Revd Dr John Perumbalath (Bishop of Bradwell), Rt Revd Dr David Walker (Bishop of Manchester), Rt Revd Trevor Willmott (Bishop of Dover), Rev David Downing (Maidenhead and Marlow United Reformed Churches) and Revd Jeremy Harris (Vicar of All Saints, Boyne Hill, Maidenhead).
You can read the letter on The Times website (requires log-in).
