Dutch church service continues for six weeks to stop police arresting and deporting refugee family

[SummerMadness]

Dutch church service continues for six weeks to stop police arresting and deporting refugee family

Under an obscure Dutch law, police may not disrupt a church service to make an arrest. And so for the past six weeks, immigration officials have been unable to enter Bethel Church to seize the five members of the Tamrazyan family, Armenian refugees who fled to the sanctuary to escape a deportation order.

The service, which began in late October as a little-noticed, last-gasp measure by a small group of local ministers, is now a national movement, attracting clergy members and congregants from villages and cities across the Netherlands. More than 550 pastors from about 20 denominations have rotated through Bethel Church, a non-stop service all in the name of protecting one vulnerable family.

 

[Kenny'sID]

Cool.

 

[Nithavela]

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Dutch church service continues for six weeks to stop police arresting and deporting refugee family

Where I am from that is called revival

 

[Aryeh Jay]

The Dutch are continuing what they did in the 1940s for other people slated for deportation, good for them.