Jenny Holland

We need, I mean, that's how it works in the outside world.

And the outside world is coming apart at the seams.

It's very depressing to see that church leadership reflects to such a bad degree, the poor morals of the outside world.

Well, I'll be very polite and say that only God knows the answer to that question.

But...

The article certainly does not lead in that direction.

Yeah.

So the Daily Telegraph had a very interesting article about a Christian charity called Care Links, which is part of the Christadelphian sect.

that is traveling around the country, like you said, going to migrant hotels throughout the United Kingdom, specifically England, and baptizing migrants, including just sort of dunking them in the bathtubs in their hotel rooms.

And they do this after providing migrants with a kind of pamphlet, an introductory book called Bible Basics, and asking them to state their Christian conversion and repent of their sins.

Interestingly, yes, as you said, the process can then be used for these asylum seekers to buttress their case, allowing them to remain in the country, because like you said, if they're returned to Muslim countries later.

they would face persecution.

Interestingly, so the lower adjudication courts are private, but there's an upper tier of cases that are public.

And the Telegraph specifically mentions several cases, four of which were thrown out by the court, so at least there's that little glimmer of sunshine, but two of which were upheld because, in each case, it was an Iranian applicant

male who had used the Christadelphian conversion as proof of his religious sentiment.

Interestingly, the shadow Home Secretary, so the conservative Home Secretary,

who is not currently in power, it's a labor government obviously, is calling for the rules to be changed so that you can only claim Christianity as a reason for asylum if you were Christian before you arrived here, which makes a lot of sense.

But it's not just the Christadelphians who are doing this.

The article also linked back to a particularly shocking story from last year where an Afghan asylum failed asylum seeker who had already had a sexual conviction, a sexual crime conviction against him.

had his asylum claim rejected two times, but then went to a Baptist minister who testified on his behalf and supported his claim, saying he had actually converted genuinely and that he should be allowed to stay.