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Hundreds farewell asylum seeker Leo Seemanpillai (Geelong Advertiser)

ON his first day in Geelong, asylum seeker Leo Seemanpillai knocked on the door of Grovedale’s St Paul’s Lutheran Church and found it locked.

He knocked again on his second day, then again the next, then again until his knocking coincided with a Sunday and the warm embrace of a congregation which took the devout, polite young Tamil man to its heart.

Read more: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/hundreds-farewell-asylum-seeker-leo-seemanpillai/story-fnjuhovy-1226944836967

Hundreds farewell asylum seeker Leo Seemanpillai (Geelong Advertiser) – AMES Australia