Bishops Accuse Cameron of Ignoring Offers to Assist in Refugee Crisis

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The Church of England has finally expressed their frustration publicly after the Prime Minister David Cameron allegedly ignored their offer to help provide housing, foster care and other support to more than 50,000 refugees. A group of almost 84 bishops released a private letter they sent to the prime minister in early September, asking him to increase the number of refugees taken in by the UK.

According to the letter, bishops asked Cameron to increase the number of refugees intake from 20,000 to 50,000 and consider involving the church in a national effort to “mobilise the nation as in times past.” The bishops offered to rally “churches, congregations and individuals” all over the country to make rental properties and spare housing available to those who had fled their homelands.

However, the bishop of Durham, Paul Butler, issued a statement while releasing the letter to Cameron and highlighted that their patience is exhausted. He stressed that “it is disheartening that we have not received any substantive reply despite an assurance from the prime minister that one would be received.” Butler stated that “there is an urgent and compelling moral duty to act, which we as bishops are offering to facilitate alongside others from across civil society,” adding that “there is a real urgency to this issue with those increasingly being forced from their land as their homes are literally bombed into the ground. As the fighting intensifies, as the sheer scale of human misery becomes greater, the government’s response seems increasingly inadequate to meet the scale and severity of the problem.”