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LONDON, (Reuters) – A vicar was charged yesterday  with two offences related to helping arrange 180 “sham  marriages” that helped illegal immigrants stay in Britain, the  UK Border Agency and police said.

They said the Reverend Alex Brown, 60, from St. Peter and  St. Paul Church, in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, had been  charged with conspiring to aid unlawful entry.

He was also charged with “solemnizing a marriage according  to the rights of the Church of England” without banns of  matrimony being published.

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  1. quibian CANADA says:

    pope, priests, vicars, pastors! these people are sick!

  2. Bradley 432 BARBADOS says:

    and some are very rich too.

  3. Caesar Agustus UNITED STATES says:

    This is happening all over the world. These pastors and priests also accept bribes, according to a Pakistani student I knew, to vouch for student visas in Pakistan



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