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Let us pray and pray: church shelters migrant family with 192-day service
The Observer
|June 01, 2025
A Dutch congregation is providing sanctuary to a family facing deportation by using an ancient law to prevent police entering the building.
Fourteen-year-old Ariana Babayants spoke quietly to the ring of a dozen people gathered in the Protestant Open Hof church in Kampen, a city 85km east of Amsterdam.
"One day, you wake up and there are police officers around your bed," she said. "And they say: 'Pack as many clothes as you can - you have to come with us.' And then you're taken away in these big black vans... You end up at the detention centre, with concrete walls all around you and cameras. I have to cry a little... It leaves a huge mark on your life."
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