Refugees

Colin Nevin  |  Your Views
Date posted:  1 Oct 2015
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Dear en,

The subject of immigration has been filling our television screens raising grave concerns about what is going on in the world. Some feel Europe cannot cope with this number of migrants and others feel that we should open the doors wide out of humanitarian compassion, and both viewpoints have a valid argument.

We may be experiencing one of the biggest upheavals in the Western world since the founding of Christianity. Most of the migrants that hope to make Europe their home are Muslim, which will change the demographics of Europe for ever, at least from the statistic of Christianity being the major religion.

Mary and Joseph were refugees in Egypt when Herod killed all the infants in Bethlehem, but they returned to Israel after the trouble was over. To the Israelites fleeing Egypt God said, ‘I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt. You shall have no other gods before me.’ (Exodus 20.2,3.) The challenge for Christians and Jews across Europe is that Allah is not the God of the Bible, yet Islam could end up being in the ascendancy.

Yours most sincerely,

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