{"id":105005,"date":"2021-09-13T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=105005"},"modified":"2021-09-13T18:31:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T22:31:50","slug":"guardian-bishops-hit-out-at-criminalisation-of-good-samaritan-over-channel-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=105005","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Bishops hit out at \u2018criminalisation of Good Samaritan\u2019 over Channel crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A multilateral approach, promoting safe routes and valuing human life and the \u201cdignity of the vulnerable\u201d, was needed, the bishops said.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Butler, the bishop of Durham, said: \u201cWe agree with the home secretary that we need a better and more efficient asylum process, and we agree on wanting to stop human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the answer is more designated safe routes. The situation in Afghanistan has demonstrated that it\u2019s possible to identify the most vulnerable people, sort out the necessary paperwork and set up safe routes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Afghanistan, we have seen the story, seen the horror. With a lot of the folk in Calais, we don\u2019t know their stories. If we did, levels of sympathy and compassion would increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/12\/bishops-hit-out-at-criminalisation-of-good-samaritan-over-channel-crossings\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bishops hit out at \u2018criminalisation of Good Samaritan\u2019 over Channel crossings <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ueIySX8ENX\">https:\/\/t.co\/ueIySX8ENX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dimitri Fran\u00e7ois (@sommelier50) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sommelier50\/status\/1437449402726105088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multilateral approach, promoting safe routes and valuing human life and the \u201cdignity of the vulnerable\u201d, was needed, the bishops said. Paul Butler, the bishop of Durham, said: \u201cWe agree with the home secretary that we need a better and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=105005\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,389,635,168,144,147,151,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-immigration","category-politics-in-general","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105007,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105005\/revisions\/105007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}