Protestant Bishop Christian Stäblein was complaining last month about how a “society of outrage and anger” has developed in Germany. Now, in his position as refugee commissioner of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), he has revealed himself to be a part of the problem.
Stäblein announced in a statement that the EKD will be donating €100,000 from church collections to support lawsuits filed by Afghans trying to secure residency in Germany, despite major national frustration with uncontrolled migration.
“The Protestant Church,” he said, “will not abandon asylum seekers and their families.”
The money—taken from churchgoers—will supposedly go towards the ‘Kabul Airlift’ NGO, set up by the previous government to bring to Germany Afghans who worked with the German military, and others deemed at serious risk under the Taliban. But many of those on the flights since Friedrich Merz took over as chancellor appear not to meet this criterion.
Regardless of this, Stäblein insisted that those trying to come to Germany “risked their lives and those of their families for our values and interests, not least for freedom and the equal dignity of all.”
German legal official Thore Jensen asked whether the EKD “stated the purpose before the collection,” adding: “Otherwise, the collection would have been fraud, wouldn’t it?”
Another 193 Afghan migrants arrived in Germany this week—this time, for the first time under this government, via charter flight. These will be “distributed among the German states,” according to Welt, something which is bound to cause further outrage among the German people.
The AfD condemned the flight as “a sad record of the CDU government under Chancellor Merz,” adding:
Cities are groaning, social costs are exploding. The AfD demands a consistent deportation offensive for all those without a right to stay!
Just shy of 2,000 others are still waiting to be relocated to Germany.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
