Justin Welby launches refugee resettlement scheme with Home Secretary Amber Rudd

Jul 19, 2016 by

by James Macintyre, Christian Today:

Community groups will be able to sponsor a refugee family under a new scheme launched jointly today by the Home Secretary and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Full Community Sponsorship programme will enable churches, faith groups, charities and businesses to support directly resettled refugees.

The announcement at Lambeth Palace comes ten months after the Government said it would take in some 20,000 Syrian refugees to the UK. Justin Welby also confirmed that he is housing a family on the grounds of Lambeth Palace, the first community group to be approved for receiving refugees.

“It’s an enormous privilege to welcome a family to live in a cottage in the grounds of Lambeth Palace,” he said. “I am hugely grateful to the Home Office and Lambeth Council for their tireless work and support in enabling this to happen.”

He added: “The Full Community Sponsorship Scheme presents churches and other civil society groups with the opportunity to provide sanctuary to those fleeing war-torn places. Refugees, like all people, are treasured human beings, made in the image of God, who deserve safety, freedom and the opportunity to flourish.”

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