‘As a church we say that we need a reduction in the number of refugees,’ he said.
Marx added: ‘Germany cannot take in all the world’s needy.’
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The question of how to respond to the migrant crisis, he asserted, should not solely be a matter of ‘charity but also reason.’
However, Marx also expressed concern at a rise in xenophobia in Germany amid the worst refugee crisis that Europe has known since World War II.
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