A Dutch church has been conducting religious services for 27 days to protect a refugee family

baetrice-duke:

thecroissantgirl:

beachdeath:

For the past 27 days, a small Protestant church in The Hague has been conducting round-the-clock religious services to protect an Armenian refugee family from deportation.

By law, police officers in The Netherlands are not allowed to enter places of worship during religious services. So, reverends from around the country have taken turns holding services at Bethel Church to prevent officials from arresting the Tamrazyan family, who have been in The Netherlands for nine years. 

“By giving hospitality to this family, we could give them time and place to [demonstrate] to the secretary of state the … urgency of their situation,” Theo Hettema, chairman of the General Council of Protestant Ministers says.

#it only counts as a service if people actually attend#so at least one person has to be there 24/7#my mum’s been getting up at 5:30 for weeks now so that she could attend a service before work#:’)#and there are a couple of volunteers who are there at night when fewer people are likely to show up#it’s a community effort and the government has no choice but to address this#there’s increasing pressure from the oppsition and some parties within the coalition as well9,035 notes 

(via @jammeke )

This is still going on. It’s been 33 days now (Nov 28 2018)

A Dutch church has been conducting religious services for 27 days to protect a refugee family

phantomfist:

making a post on mobile thats anything other than pure text is such a roll of the dice like will it vanish into the void never to emerge again or will it post eight times in a row? or maybe not in a row, maybe it’ll wait for you to think its posted correctly and continue blogging before just sprinkling a repost in every so often without you noticing

lunaesteria:

I just wanna say that like we should take the time to appreciate how modern witchcraft is evolving.

Don’t get me wrong, I still think there’s a large number of spells and recipes and tumblr posts in general that lack a solid and effective technique.

But, folk magick, no matter what region of the world you’re from, relied on using items that were readily available and accessible to heal ourselves and our loved ones, and to fuck up our enemies.

I think that as times change, we should be able to adapt to these changes and continue to use what we can and what we have to improve and advance our craft.