1000 Christian refugees being kicked out of Israel

A CHRISTIAN group has offered to relocate about 1,000 Christian Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel to the West to rescue them from planned expulsion to Egypt by the government.

Faced with a growing number of refugees and economic migrants crossing the border from Egypt, Israel has said it would allow 500 refugees from Darfur already inside Israel to remain in the country. But it also made it clear that the southern Sudanese, who number twice as many, will be deported to Egypt. Human rights activists say they have previously faced racism and maltreatment in Egypt.

There are also fears Egypt will expel them onward to Sudan, where they would face life imprisonment or execution for entering Israel. More...