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    Months-Long Dutch Church Service To Protect Migrants Ends After Policy Shift

    The Bethel Church in The Hague carried on services for 96 days to protect the Tamrazyan family, Armenian migrants who have lived in the Netherlands for nearly nine years, from deportation.
    by Francesca Paris Jan 31, 2019 2 minutes
    A months-long service has come to a close at a church in The Hague, Netherlands.

    Every day, for more than three months, a church service at a small Dutch chapel went on around-the-clock. Pastors worked in shifts. Volunteers worshiped.

    The Bethel Church in The Hague started its nonstop service on Oct. 26 to protect an Armenian immigrant family from deportation, under a Dutch law that from disrupting a church service to

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