Don’t Let the Asylum System Be Exploited, Cleverly Warns Churches

The home secretary has warned Britain’s churches not to allow asylum seekers to use their conversions to Christianity to exploit the system. In his message to church leaders at Easter, James Cleverly wrote for The Sun on Saturday that there is a “real difference” between converting asylum seekers to Christianity and welcoming them into their congregation, and “vouching” for them at an asylum hearing. “We have met with the senior Church leaders to explain Christian conversion is no guarantee of asylum being granted and we’ve stressed there is a real difference between welcoming new members to a flock and vouching for a person in an asylum tribunal,” Mr. Cleverly wrote....