Prayers for Peacemakers 12 August 2020  Aegean Migrant Solidarity

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We pray for the migrants whose desperation to reach a safe place is treated as a public spectacle by the media.  We ask that God grant journalists—those who are treating migrants like objects to boost ratings—hearts of flesh. (Ezekiel 11:19)

 

This is not journalism: complain about recent coverage of Channel crossings

 

you have to understand,

that no one puts their children in a boat

unless the water is safer than the land

 

Warsan Shire, “Home”

 

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