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Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government
RNS ^ | March 12, 2025 | Jack Jenkins

Posted on 05/12/2025 12:21:21 PM PDT by mbrfl

(RNS) — In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration.

In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago the government “informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees.”

The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion that boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: desmondtutu; episcopal; episcopalchurch; episcopalians; necklacing; refugees; southafrica; trump
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1 posted on 05/12/2025 12:21:21 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

All this does is prove that they are, in fact, genuine refuges.


2 posted on 05/12/2025 12:22:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Spot on. They are genuine persecuted African refugees.

3 posted on 05/12/2025 12:24:46 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: BenLurkin

It also proves, if it still needed proving, that the Episcopal Church is no longer a Christian denomination, but rather a Marxist activist group.


4 posted on 05/12/2025 12:25:02 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

There as bad as the Anglicans.


5 posted on 05/12/2025 12:25:59 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (Don’t want to hurt no kangaroos )
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To: mbrfl

White Afrikaners are just fodder to them. They want them tortured and killed as reparations so to speak.


6 posted on 05/12/2025 12:26:07 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: mbrfl

The Episcopal Church, like so many others, worships mammon and serves the Deep State.


7 posted on 05/12/2025 12:26:48 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Lisbon1940

They ARE Anglicans. Different continent.


8 posted on 05/12/2025 12:27:13 PM PDT by madison10 (God chose President Trump. Satan chose judges and Democrats.)
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To: mbrfl

The Episcopal Church fathers apparently don’t want to have the black South Africans they “support” to be shown as the violent racists they clearly are, nor do they wish to be tarred with the “racist” brush for having helped Afrikaners flee the ANC tyranny they abetted.


9 posted on 05/12/2025 12:27:32 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: mewzilla

The Episskopal church!


10 posted on 05/12/2025 12:28:37 PM PDT by ABStrauss (ywwe.)
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To: mbrfl

I guess they just showed which side they are on in the battle between good and evil. “- Woe unto them that call evil good. “


11 posted on 05/12/2025 12:29:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: mbrfl

Doesn’t the left want whites out of South Africa? Oh wait. That’s only if it’s through genocide, not through migration.


12 posted on 05/12/2025 12:30:20 PM PDT by mbrfl
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“...Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church...”

Yeah, it is the morally correct thing to do, so, of course, they won’t do the morally correct thing. They are unmoored from Christianity.


13 posted on 05/12/2025 12:30:32 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: mbrfl

The Episcopal Church only takes in deviants and war mongers these days.


14 posted on 05/12/2025 12:32:49 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Lisbon1940

Anglicans are a mixed bag.

The African Anglican Church, ironically, is very solid.

As is the American, as it exists as a rejection of Episcopalian heresy.

In England, however, you are absolutely correct.


15 posted on 05/12/2025 12:34:48 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: mbrfl

That church is racist.


16 posted on 05/12/2025 12:35:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: mass55th

The Episcopals, like many of the mainline Protestant churches, were invaded by draft dodgers from VN in the 1970s who could get a lifetime deferment, a cushy job where they often didn’t even believe in the Gospel, and decent pay given the major endowments left to these churches by many wealthy believers who had no idea what they would transform into - centers of leftist agitation, a shade away from Bolshevism, and no defense of traditional values or standards.


17 posted on 05/12/2025 12:36:01 PM PDT by laconic
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To: Islander7

I read about Trump’s decision only yesterday. Thought it was definitely the right thing to do. And was wondering when the fallout was going to hit. Didn’t take long. Whites as refugees torques a lot of the genocide lovers out there.


18 posted on 05/12/2025 12:36:32 PM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union just to get a job loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: laconic

Excellent facts. Thanks for sharing.


19 posted on 05/12/2025 12:37:49 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mbrfl

“As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims.”

Make sure these crazed liars are barred from entering the US.


20 posted on 05/12/2025 12:39:35 PM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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