The leader of the Church of England, Justin Welby, Sunday, criticised the British government’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to process their claims, IgbereTV reports
The scheme has sparked outrage and widespread criticism from human rights organisations and even the UN.
And Welby, who as the Archbishop of Canterbury is the Church of England’s highest cleric, added his voice to the dissent in his Easter Day address.
While “the details are for politics and politicians,” Welby suggested that sending asylum seekers overseas posed “serious ethical questions.
“The principle must stand the judgement of God and it cannot,” Welby said.
A country like Britain informed by Christian values cannot “sub-contract out our responsibilities, even to a country that seeks to do well like Rwanda,” the church leader continued
