Countries, Europe, Human Rights, Refugees Issues
Germany's ruling party wants tougher immigration laws that give priority to Christian migrants instead of Muslims. The party also wants to ban full-face and partial-face veils, end dual citizenship, require that all immigrants learn German and cap the number of aslyum seekers at 200,000 a year.

An Christian Orthodox Pakistani migrant living at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants, holds an icon during a mass marking the Sunday of Orthodoxy at the church of the village of Idomeni, Greece, March 20, 2016. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis – RTSBCOT
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Bavarian allies published a paper outlining the party's calls for migrants from Europe's "Christian-occidental cultural sphere," Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. They seek to officially present the proposed rules at a meeting Friday.
"Germany must stay Germany," the paper states. "We are against our welcoming country being changed through migration and waves of refugees. We shouldn’t be the ones who adjust to migrants, the opposite should be true."
Jul 29, 2023
It has been close to six years since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya faced a deadly genocide by Myanmar’s military and fled the country in search of protection and refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya population has been undergoing persecution, discrimination, arbitrary arrests, and atrocities in Myanmar for over seven decades. Their condition is alarmingly […]