Australian Border Force - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 05 Nov 2018 04:55:02 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Australian Border Force - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Australian Border Force blocking church baptism of detention-born baby https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/11/05/australian-border-force-baptism/ Mon, 05 Nov 2018 06:55:59 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=113492 The Australian Border Force is preventing a baby who was born seven months ago in a Melbourne immigration detention centre from being baptised in a church, according to the family and a Catholic priest. A United Nations body is now examining whether Australia is breaching its human rights obligations by holding the infant in arbitrary Read more

Australian Border Force blocking church baptism of detention-born baby... Read more]]> The Australian Border Force is preventing a baby who was born seven months ago in a Melbourne immigration detention centre from being baptised in a church, according to the family and a Catholic priest.

A United Nations body is now examining whether Australia is breaching its human rights obligations by holding the infant in arbitrary detention. Read more

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