‘Australia’s Anglican Archbishops express ‘profound disquiet’ about children held in detention this Easter’

Posted on April 11, 2014 
Filed under Australian dioceses

Anglican Church of AustraliaHere’s a media release issued this afternoon –

The Anglican Archbishops in Australia will commence Holy Week with a call for more humane treatment of refugees, particularly children in detention.

The Archbishops have released the following statement deploring the fact that recent figures suggest that around a thousand children will spend Easter in Australian sponsored detention.

“As leaders of the Anglican Church of Australia we wish to put on record our profound disquiet that at the end of February this year there were more than 950 children in detention facilities and alternative places of detention in Australia, and a further 177 children in offshore detention in Nauru. The average time people spend in detention is more than eight months. …”

See the full statement here.