Faithful Cities is published by the commission on Urban life and faith, it's the follow up to Faith in the City. The commission had my Bishop Stephen Lowe on it and I was involved in the consultation process that produced the report.
Part of the report has been leaked to the Sunday Times, who say:
"The Church of England is to issue a withering attack on some of Labour’s highest- profile social policies, accusing the government of forcing asylum seekers into destitution and setting the minimum wage too low to relieve poverty...It states: “It is unacceptable to use destitution as a tool of coercion when dealing with refused asylum seekers.”
Read more here.
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