Thought for the Week: Refugee crisis

Friends make a statement on the refugee crisis

by Meeting for Sufferings 11th September 2015

‘That which is morally wrong cannot be politically right.’
(A Quaker statement in 1822)

‘Quakers in Britain urge the UK government to welcome those desperately seeking a place of safety, in Europe, from the dangers in their own countries. In this urgent situation it cannot be right to harden hearts against people who are struggling and dying on European soil and in the seas around us.