Even for churches and charities who have no political agenda, the influx of migrants poses dilemmas. Without implying that they are indifferent to anybody's suffering, European churches have, as one would expect, condemned with particular ire the destruction of ancient Christian communities and institutions in Iraq and Syria, as well as the travails of Christians convicted for blasphemy or apostasy in places like Pakistan or Sudan. For some churches in Europe, the connection with co-religionists abroad is human as well as moral; in Britain, for example, there is a small but vigorous community of exiled Iraqi Catholics who are in close touch with kin in the old country.
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