Some German churches shelter refugees on the brink of deportation while they submit legal appeals for their cases
Some religious institutions on German soil are saving asylum seekers from deportation, offering them shelter for six months and then assististing them in their court cases. Pastor Gottfried Marten’s Trinity Church in Berlin is one of them.
By law, the German police can deport them, but in practice, they don't step on church premises. It means the refugees remain safe within the institutions’ confines until they are prepared to file court petitions for the right to seek asylum in Germany -- mostly on the grounds of religious persecution back home. If officials deny their application, they are to be deported to the first country in which they arrived in Europe.
There are suspicions that some refugees have only converted to Christianity in order to be able to seek “Church Asylum” -- a temporary sanctuary for those who don’t have legal residence.
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