Posted on 12/04/2016 4:26:34 PM PST by marshmallow
THREE archbishops from war-torn Iraq and Syria have been refused permission to enter the UK despite being invited to London to meet Prince Charles.
The Christians, including the Archbishop of Mosul, were told there was “no room at the inn” by the Home Office when they applied for visas to attend the consecration of the UK’s first Syriac Orthodox Cathedral.
Last night the decision was described as “unbelievable” by critics who pointed out that extreme Islamic leaders had been allowed visas.
The Prince of Wales addressed the congregation at St Thomas Cathedral in London last week, while both the Queen and the Prime Minister sent personal messages of congratulations.
Prince Charles, who has previously described the persecution of the Christians in the Middle East as a “tragedy”, used his address to highlight the suffering of Syrian Christians.
But the welcome did not extend to Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf, the Archbishop of Mosul, nor to Timothius Mousa Shamani, the Archbishop of St Matthew’s, which covers the Nineveh valley in northern Iraq, who were refused UK visas to attend the event on November 24.
The UK also refused to grant a visa to Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh, the Archbishop of Homs and Hama in Syria.
In his case the British embassy told him that it would not waiver from its policy of not granting visas to anyone in Syria.
The men were also told they were denied entry because they did not have enough money to support themselves and they might not leave the UK.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Maybe they should convert to islam..,
Maybe they should convert to islam..,
If you are talking about British Politicians, they seem to be in process of doing just that.
I was thinking it might help the bishops get entry visas...
I forgot to put the /S on the end of the sentence.
They should come in on the back of a lorry and then claim asylum. The government will never be able to get rid of them then.
And this is a large part of the reason why I like and admire the Prince of Wales and have often found myself defending him here against people who have - in my view - unfortunately accepted the caricature of him that a left wing press often presents (because they love to caricature conservatives). He has been speaking out on the issue of the persecution of Christians in the Middle East for years now, in the face of a British government and establishment that really doesn’t want to acknowledge the issue.
Yes, he also has a few ideas that are staunchly non-conservative - in particular, some of his environmental ideas - but the reason you hear about them so much is largely because the media normally only reports the speeches they agree with.
Moslems in England and in France are numerous enough to decide elections.
They anti-gay, oh wait
“The men were also told they were denied entry because they did not have enough money to support themselves and they might not leave the UK.”
Damn. I didn’t know that the U.K. checked the income of tourists.
Who knew?
(Idiots)
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Agree with you 100%.
He isn't going to get many admirers on this site either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales
Charles's interests encompass a range of humanitarian and social issues and this article seems to be a fair portrait of him.
Now Britain is turning on Christians? What is happening?
They don’t call it Londanistan for nothing.
So did I
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