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Catholics in Japan fear for refugees, foreigners during coronavirus

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The coronavirus pandemic is causing drops in charitable donations to Catholic organizations in Japan, especially affecting refugees and vulnerable foreigners, local media are reporting.

 

Sinapis, an aid group created by the Archdiocese of Osaka in 2002, had to shut its doors in April amid a sharp drop in donations, the Japan Times reported.

The organization is still conducting phone consultations, the Times reports.

“If we continue like this, foreigners who depend on donations will have nowhere to turn,” Atsuko de Vizcardo Matsuura, a 56-year-old worker at Sinapis, told the Japan Times.

The Catholic Tokyo International Center, which the Archdiocese of Tokyo supervises, has had to stop its usual practice of making monthly deliveries of food and daily necessities, donated by churches in the archdiocese, to needy families.

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