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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Daly

Catholics urged to follow Pope’s lead by urging MPs to block migration Bill

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Catholics in England and Wales are being urged to follow Pope Francis’s teaching on migrant rights and oppose the Government’s tough new asylum seeker law.

The charity Cafod wants its supporters to press their MPs to vote down the Illegal Migration Bill after highlighting the 86-year-old pontiff’s call for “maximum respect” for the “dignity of each migrant”.

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