{"id":43658,"date":"2022-04-19T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/19\/australia-has-moral-duty-to-take-20000-more-afghan-refugees-catholic-bishops-say"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:08:40","slug":"australia-has-moral-duty-to-take-20000-more-afghan-refugees-catholic-bishops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43658","title":{"rendered":"Australia has \u2018moral duty\u2019 to take 20,000 more Afghan refugees, Catholic bishops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election statement also calls for a special intake of Ukrainians and a wider reassessment of refugee policies <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/australian-election-2022\">Guardian Australia\u2019s full federal election coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Catholic bishops have called for a special intake of 20,000 refugees from Afghanistan, saying the country has a \u201cmoral duty\u201d to do more.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its election statement, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said the country had an obligation to take more refugees from Afghanistan because of the support shown to Australian military forces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/19\/australia-has-moral-duty-to-take-20000-more-afghan-refugees-catholic-bishops-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election statement also calls for a special intake of Ukrainians and a wider reassessment of refugee policies Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGuardian Australia\u2019s full federal election coverageGet our free news app; get our mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,2625,388,491,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-election-2022","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-migration","category-religion"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43659,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658\/revisions\/43659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}