Germany’s Christian institutions play a pivotal role in mass immigration, through the message they preach in parishes all the way to their efforts in funding the transfer of migrants to Germany.
Now, the Catholic Diocese of Trier is calling for monthly donations to fund another ship to bring illegal immigrants to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea. Catholic faithful are being called upon to fund the operation of the Sea-Eye 5 “rescue ship.”
“Sea rescue is a Christian and humanitarian duty,” said Trier’s Vicar General Ulrich Graf von Plettenberg.
The church now wants 3,000 co-sponsors who will send €16.67 every month. The funding will help ensure the boat can pick up migrants off the North African coast. Often, there is no shipwreck involved, with migrants being picked up directly from human trafficking boats. It is far cheaper for these boats to send out a distress signal and have illegal migrants picked up directly from their boats. Most of these migrants end up in countries like Germany after arriving in Italy.
This is not the first effort to finance migrant rescue boats, with the same diocese co-financing the Sea-Eye 4 boat years ago with the help of other dioceses.
The Catholic Church is far from the only Christian organization supporting mass immigration, with the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) initiating the purchase of the original Sea-Eye 5 boat for €465,000, along with the help of other pro-migrant organizations. The EKD’s massive role in the migrant business has been covered by Remix News in the past. Notably, the EKD has begun removing pastors who are sympathetic to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, known for its anti-immigration stance.
The Catholic Church diocese in Trier is not just for more immigration, which has led to countless stabbings, gang rapes, and young women being harassed on a nearly daily basis across Germany, but it is also openly against the “right.”
Von Plettenberg said he thought the transport of migrants was “convincing and absolutely right.” It is also using this support to “send a clear signal against the isolation policy of Europe, which is being propagated primarily by right-wing parties.”
Most on the right are not against rescuing migrants who are shipwrecked, but the main point is returning them immediately to their countries of origin. Not only would this help solve a pressing element of Europe’s immigration problem, but would also discourage other migrants from bothering with the dangerous journey. However, EU and national laws ensure these deportations are simply not possible at this time.
It should be noted that illegal immigration via the Mediterranean accounts for only a fraction of overall immigration into Europe, with legal migration dominating the demographic transformation of the continent.
Meanwhile. Christian institutions across Germany are hemorrhaging members. The EKD lost a record number of 745,000 members in 2022, as increasingly more Germans turn their backs on institutional religion. Germany’s Catholic Church saw similar losses in 2022, losing over half a million members.
