We’re grateful to Bishop Paul McAleenan for welcoming our campaign to defend asylum. Together with CSAN and SVP we're calling for a system rooted in dignity and protection.
If you would like to get involved with the Christian Campaign to Defend Asylum head to: www.jrsuk.net/defend-asylum
In Gran Canaria, Pope Leo met migrants and those who accompany them on one of the world’s deadliest routes — calling for compassion, responsibility and safe pathways.
At JRS UK, we see this dignity every day in the people we walk alongside.
Since "one in, one out" started, JRS UK and @humansforrights.bsky.social have found that at least 141 age-disputed young people have been detained under the scheme.
At least 64 of these either have subsequently been found to be children by local authorities or are pending further inquiries
As we dive into summer, may we share the newest edition of Together!☀️
This newsletter read about the importance of welcome, the 1951 Refugee Convention, and join us as part of A Christian Campaign to Defend Asylum!
📰Read Together at: www.jrsuk.net/summer2026
We echo this call: to move beyond indifference, and to build a society where everyone is recognised as our brother or sister.
Read more: www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
We're alarmed by the government’s proposed asylum support reforms & their impact on stateless people, who are already disproportionately trapped in destitution & legal limbo.
Read our joint statement w/ @jrsuk.bsky.social @enstatelessness.bsky.social & others:
www.asylumaid.org.uk/resources/jo...
🎭 Jesuits have always had a love for theatre.
@jrsuk.bsky.social Refugee friends have reworked Faith, Hope and Charity, bringing fresh voices to this powerful story.
Next month, you’ll have the chance to see it for yourself as part of Refugee Week.
Find out more: www.jrsuk.net/refugee-week/
The UK Government recently proposed starting forced removals to the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite a reported increase in human rights violations.
These removals are happening in a context where people cannot access legal representation.
Read our full briefing:
www.jrsuk.net/news/forced-...
Under the "one-in-one-out" scheme there has been an increase in the number of age-disputed children in immigration detention. Urgent change is needed to ensure the protection of children and vulnerable people.
Join us, and @humansforrights.bsky.social in calling for an end to immigration detention.
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We are deeply alarmed by the UK government’s proposed reforms to asylum support, set out in its consultation on implementing provisions of the Immigration Act 2016.
Young asylum seekers far more likely to be assessed as adults by immigration officers than by social workers
Local authorities deem UK arrivals to be children more than twice as often as border forces, Home Office data shows
Young asylum seekers in the UK are more than twice as likely to be assessed as adults by immigration officers than by social workers, according to home office data.
Between July 2025 and March 2026, 4,320 initial age decisions made by immigration officials found just 1,363 new arrivals (32%) to be children. Continue reading...
At a meeting with migrants and the organisations that rescue and accompany them in Gran Canaria, Pope Leo urges the world not to grow indifferent to ...
At a meeting with migrants and the organisations that rescue and accompany them in Gran Canaria, Pope Leo urges the world not to grow indifferent to ...
