Pastor leaves deportation centre job

A moral dilemma has led to Catholic priest Gerard Loman resigning from his post as spiritual guide to prisoners held in the Zeist deportation centre. Loman told Radio 1 he could no longer cope with the fact that ‘people were being incarcerated for the sake of it, even when there was no real chance they could ever be deported’.

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