"If the press headlines are to be believed, Europe is currently in danger of being ‘flooded’ by ‘waves’ of ‘illegal’ immigrants who are, ‘marching across our lands’, and ‘stealing our jobs’ and ‘polluting’ our gene pools. I despair at such gross distortions but sadly the discourse has a certain persuasive power even among the Churches of Europe today. When the Baptist Union of Great Britain elected a President formerly from Sri Lanka in the mid 1990s, death threats were received purporting to come from the British Klu Klux Klan."1 (1)
1Darrell Jackson, ' From Strangers to Friends: The Churches in Europe in Their Encounter with the Global South', Encounters 9, 1 [available at redcliffe site]
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