From Australia-God loves boat people.
This is the message displayed outside more than 70 churches across the state, as religious institutions step in to care for an increasing number of asylum seekers with nowhere else to go.
One Sydney church has helped to rehouse more than 90 asylum seekers dumped in an inner-city hotel the day after leaving Curtin Immigration Detention Centre.
They arrived with the singlets on their backs and $85 to last them two weeks in a cramped room with no cooking facilities.
Reverend Andrew Bruce, the minister of St Peters Anglican Church, says Australia's asylum seeker policy is ''heartless, unacceptable . . . a complete shambles''.
He was halfway through a sermon on Good Friday when 45 asylum seekers from Sri Lanka filed into the back of his church.
More here-
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/god-loves-boat-people-churches-take-a-stand-20130901-2syua.html
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