eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 29 November 2002

Deportees from Australia risk death at home, church coalition says

Sydney (ENI). A coalition of Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders has claimed that some asylum-seekers rejected by Australia were killed on their arrival home. They also assert that some of those rejected by Australia as not being true refugees have been accepted in other countries, and that inhumane practices, including the use of sedatives and force, are being employed to deport asylum-seekers. [573 words, ENI-02-0436]

Human rights activist urges churches to confront Mugabe's government

Harare (ENI). Zimbabwean human rights activist, Lovemore Madhuku, has urged churches to "preach the gospel of confrontation" and to help bring an end to the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front party's "oppressive and dictatorial style of leadership". "People, including the church community which has been quiet and passive for a long time, must unite and confront the regime which does not respect the rights of the people they are accountable to," Madhuku, the chair of the National Constitutional Assembly, said in the country's second largest city, Bulawayo. [383 words, ENI-02-0437]

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