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The Brian Lehrer Show

What is Your Church Doing to Help Migrants?

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in to talk about what their church, or other religious congregation, is doing to help migrants who have made their way to the city.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Lerr, on WNYC, we're going to finish up in our last 15 minutes on this Monday morning

0:08.8

by asking those of you who attended religious services of any kind over the weekend if there

0:14.5

was any mention of the migrant crisis in your House of Worship, 212-433-WNYC, 212-433-9692.

0:26.8

And not just if there was any mention, but is your religious community involved in helping

0:34.2

the asylum seekers who've come to our area?

0:37.6

We're looking for stories of anybody involved in a religious community and it doesn't matter

0:42.8

if you attended church yesterday, synagogue on Saturday, mosque on Friday, whatever it

0:47.3

was, whether or not you attended services, tell us how your religious community is involved

0:53.4

if it is in helping the asylum seekers who've come in such numbers to New York and vicinity,

1:00.5

or if your religious denominations leadership is trying to stay away, 212-433-WNYC, that's

1:11.4

why we ask if there was a mention in your House of Worship this weekend.

1:16.7

You know, we had a couple of calls last week when we talked about the migrant crisis where

1:21.8

several people said, well, the city government is doing a lot, looking for temporary housing

1:29.0

and everything in all these places, what about the religious community?

1:32.8

Isn't this traditionally the responsibility, at least in part, of churches to the extent

1:40.4

that these folks are Christian, voluntarily, church community stepping up, churches stepping

1:47.6

up, offering shelter, offering sanctuary in the literal sense.

1:52.6

212-433-WNYC, tell us about your religious community in this context here on this Monday

2:01.6

morning, 212-433-9692, as we know, the city keeps fighting to house many of the asylum

2:14.7

seekers. They're talking about erecting tent cities in the public parks in some cases

2:20.7

that is drawing a lot of pushback, a judge on Friday did say in court that the state needs

2:26.4

to do more to keep the city from violating the right to shelter mandate that is in place,

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