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Photo credit: Daily Mail The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PFCC) for Essex in the United Kingdom has asked the Government to stop sending migrants to “unsuitable” hotels. The MailOnline reports that Roger Hirst said he had written to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, outlining the “unsuitability” of the Bell Hotel in Epping for housing asylum…

Photo credit: NBC News The Korean government has launched an emergency special investigation of a brick factory in Naju, South Jeolla, on Thursday after  revelations of group harassment against a foreign worker. Kore JoongAng Daily reports that the  Ministry of Employment and Labor said on Thursday  that it had become aware of an incident at a brick manufacturing business…

Photo credit: The Hub According to a national Leger poll conducted for the Association for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute, 62 per cent of the people who took part in the poll think the country is admitting too many immigrants. However, 20 per cent have a contrary opinion while 19 per cent…

Photo credit: WMDT A Baltimore pastor was arrested by immigration agents while on his way to work on Monday.  According to Maryland Matters, Daniel Fuentes Espinal who has been the pastor lof Iglesia del Nazareno in Easton since 2015 is an undocumented immigrant. He fled the violence in his country, Honduras, in 2001 and settled in…

Photo credit: the Guardian The crowd that assembled outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Thursday morning was small and muted. International pilgrims jostled with dark-robed Greek Orthodox monks, but one group of native worshippers was absent. The Guardian reports that for generations, tens of thousands of Palestinian Christians living in Israeli-occupied…

Photo credit: UN The authorities in the US are scaling back the State Department’s annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process.  NPR reports that the reports are meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid…

Dear Saint Luke’s family and friends, A spiritually rich weekend at Saint Luke’s. On Saturday, we hosted a “Migrants Lenten March” organized by Saint Luke’s newly initiated Ministry with Newcomers. Gathering together were participants from various United Churches and representatives from migrants advocacy organizations and refugee support groups with a large number from the network…