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"The Living Oracles": Legal Interpretation And Mormon Thought, Nathan B. Oman
"The Living Oracles": Legal Interpretation And Mormon Thought, Nathan B. Oman
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Religious Justification For The Practice Of Ecclesiastical Sanctuary, David H. Michels, David Blaikie
Religious Justification For The Practice Of Ecclesiastical Sanctuary, David H. Michels, David Blaikie
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Stories about Canadian Christian churches engaging in civil disobedience by offering sanctuary to refugee claimants have been much in the news the past several years. Typical is the case of Ms. Sanja Pecelji who fled to St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Halifax to avoid a deportation order back to Serbia-Montenegro. The church minister, Rev. Susan Moxley, stated that Ms. Pecelji and her supporters in the church community were determined that she would reside in the church until the government reviewed her application for refugee status. “The tradition of providing sanctuary to those in need is a long-standing one for the …