Germany's refugee crisis is challenging the country's main religious groups, as it tries to balance a welcoming attitude to the mostly Muslim migrants and concern for the welfare of the minority Christians among them, the Religion News website reports today (June 6, 2016).
Increasingly, accounts of Muslim migrants ganging up on Christians and other minorities in refugee shelters have raised concerns.
Many Christian migrants have complained that radical Muslims have been harassing them and other religious minorities, making them feel threatened and under pressure to convert to Islam.
Pastor Gottfried Martens from the evangelical Trinity Church in Berlin called for separate refugee shelters for Muslims and Christians in order to resolve the problem. "When a house is burning, it's not enough to talk about fire prevention measures," he said. "You have to pull the people out."
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