Episcopal Church 👎 Afrikaners need not apply

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what a POS organization 
 

“The Episcopal Church's refugee program was getting over $50 Million per year under Biden, and they claim to have resettled 6,533 people from 48 different countries in the U.S. during 2024 alone.

Being asked to resettle <50 white people from South Africa is too much though...”

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition

 

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Jack JenkinsMay 12, 20252:45 PM ET

 

White South Africans demonstrate in support of President Trump in front of the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 15.

Jerome Delay/AP

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 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 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, which boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa.

"In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step," Rowe wrote. "Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government."

Rowe stressed that while Episcopal Migration Ministries will seek to "wind down all federally funded services by the end of the federal fiscal year in September," the denomination will continue to support immigrants and refugees in other ways, such as offering aid to refugees who have already been resettled.

The announcement came just as flights with Afrikaners were scheduled to arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, D.C. — the first batch of entries after Trump declared via a February executive orderthat the U.S. would take in "Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination." The South African government has stridently denied allegations of systemic racial animus, as has a coalition of white religious leaders in the region that includes many Anglicans.

"The stated reasons for [Trump's actions] are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation," read the letter from white South African religious leaders, which included among its four authors an Anglican priest. "As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims."

In addition to ties with Tutu, the Episcopal Church has a long history of advocating against apartheid in South Africa. It first began altering its financial holdings in the region in 1966, and by the mid-1980s, the church voted to divest from companies doing business in South Africa.

Rowe noted his announcement comes as the Trump administration has otherwise all but frozen the refugee program, with Afrikaners among the few — and possibly only — people granted entry as refugees since January. Shortly after he was sworn in, Trump signed an executive order that essentially halted the refugee program and stopped payments to organizations that assist with refugee resettlement — including, according to one group, payments for work already performed.

That change has left refugees — including Christians fleeing religious persecution — without a clear path forward and has forced the 10 refugee resettlement groups, seven of which are faith based, to lay off scores of workers while still trying to support refugees who had recently arrived. Four of the faith groups have since filed two separate lawsuits, one of which recently resulted in a ruling that should have restarted the program. However, refugee groups have accused the government of "delaying compliance" with the court order.

A representative for Church World Service, which is among the groups currently suing the administration, said the organization "has agreed to support one family through remote services," but pointed to an additional statement from last week that voiced ongoing frustration with the government's actions.

"We are concerned that the U.S. Government has chosen to fast-track the admission of Afrikaners, while actively fighting court orders to provide life-saving resettlement to other refugee populations who are in desperate need of resettlement," Rick Santos, head of Church World Service, said in a statement last week.

"By resettling this population, the Government is demonstrating that it still has the capacity to quickly screen, process, and depart refugees to the United States. It's time for the Administration to honor our nation's commitment to the thousands of refugee families it abandoned with its cruel and illegal executive order."

Matthew Soerens, vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief, an evangelical Christian group that helps resettle refugees, said in an email that his group anticipates "serving a small number" of the arrivals who qualify for Office of Refugee Resettlement-funded services. But he said the situation is "complicated by the reality that the government is not bringing them to the US through the traditional State Department initial resettlement process, where World Relief has historically been one of the ten private agencies that implement this public-private partnership, because that process remains suspended."

He added: "Our primary response to this situation is to continue to urge the administration to resume that initial resettlement process for a broad range of individuals who have fled persecution on account of their faith, political opinion, race or other reasons outlined under US law — and to highlight the support for doing so from the evangelical Christians who are World Relief's core base of support, including some very conservative evangelicals who see refugee resettlement as a vital tool to protect those denied religious freedom abroad."

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,340]

Yep, time to "resettle" every member of the Episcopal Church who supported this.  I say North Korea.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,043]

Rich diks

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Is @weepaws one of those epicopals?

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Episcopals!

[The Real timschochet 7,559]

I know some Afrikaners. They’re salt of the Earth, wonderful people. But they’re not victims, never have been. 

Their main complaint is not terrorist attacks, (that happens to less than .1%) but land seizures. But what’s important to remember is that white people own something like 90% of all the land in South Africa despite being less than 5% of the population, and that this land was mostly taken during a time when black Africans were not legally allowed to own land. So of course after Apartheid there’s going to be some redistribution. 
 

I personally believe in open immigration, so all the Afrikaners who want to come here, welcome! But if you’re not going to have open immigration, if you’re going to force me to choose who to prioritize, then sorry Afrikaners are last on the list, way behind all the REAL refugees and anyone from the countries we focked up in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. 

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3 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

But what’s important to remember is that white people own something like 90% of all the land in South Africa despite being less than 5% of the population,

It’s 7% and they own  72% . No need to exaggerate 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

I know some Afrikaners. They’re salt of the Earth, wonderful people. But they’re not victims, never have been. 

Their main complaint is not terrorist attacks, (that happens to less than .1%) but land seizures. But what’s important to remember is that white people own something like 90% of all the land in South Africa despite being less than 5% of the population, and that this land was mostly taken during a time when black Africans were not legally allowed to own land. So of course after Apartheid there’s going to be some redistribution. 
 

I personally believe in open immigration, so all the Afrikaners who want to come here, welcome! But if you’re not going to have open immigration, if you’re going to force me to choose who to prioritize, then sorry Afrikaners are last on the list, way behind all the REAL refugees and anyone from the countries we focked up in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. 

Do you know anything about these exact 50 white people and what happened to them?

[Hardcore troubadour 16,043]

Check out some now and then videos of Johannesburg. Where did all the big mouth liberals go now that it’s gone to shitt? 

[The Real timschochet 7,559]

4 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

It’s 7% and they own  72% . No need to exaggerate 

 

 

Thank you. I was going off the top of my head. Still you get the point. 

South Africa’s history is not parallel to ours despite some similarities mainly because the native population didn’t die off. Try to imagine a United States in which 93% of our population was Native American tribes, yet white people still dominated all businesses and owned almost all of the land. Thats South Africa. 

[The Real timschochet 7,559]

3 minutes ago, Gepetto said:

Do you know anything about these exact 50 white people and what happened to them?

Nope. But it can’t be worse than those fleeing the Taliban, or the mess we made in Venezuela or Mexico or the rest of Latin America. 

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15 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Nope. But it can’t be worse than those fleeing the Taliban, or the mess we made in Venezuela or Mexico or the rest of Latin America. 

Who's "we"? 

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56 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Nope. But it can’t be worse than those fleeing the Taliban, or the mess we made in Venezuela or Mexico or the rest of Latin America. 

Mexico hasn’t been in a war since like the 19th century. They aren’t fleeing anything. Being a 3rd world sh1thole doesn’t give them refugee status. As far as Venezuela. You’re a socialist you should love what happened to those people. But again not our problem. Talk to Madura 

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Yep racism still exists but it's no longer directed at black people

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Just now, Strike said:

Yep racism still exists but it's no longer directed at black people

"Freaking whities !!" -Liberal

[The Real timschochet 7,559]

1 hour ago, Strike said:

Yep racism still exists but it's no longer directed at black people

Liar. And wrong on both counts. 

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Just now, The Real timschochet said:

Liar. And wrong on both counts. 

Compulsive liar calling someone else a liar.  Crazy times.

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1 hour ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

Mexico hasn’t been in a war since like the 19th century. They aren’t fleeing anything. Being a 3rd world sh1thole doesn’t give them refugee status. As far as Venezuela. You’re a socialist you should love what happened to those people. But again not our problem. Talk to Madura 

We are largely responsible for the problems of both countries. And they ARE your problem and one way or another you’re going to focking pay for it. Too bad so sad. 

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Just now, The Real timschochet said:

We are largely responsible for the problems of both countries. And they ARE your problem and one way or another you’re going to focking pay for it. Too bad so sad. 

Fock your underpaid Mexican slaves.  Pay them a fair wage, human trash.

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1 hour ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

Mexico hasn’t been in a war since like the 19th century. They aren’t fleeing anything. Being a 3rd world sh1thole doesn’t give them refugee status. As far as Venezuela. You’re a socialist you should love what happened to those people. But again not our problem. Talk to Madura 

Wrong. Mexico took part in World War II and declared war on the Axis.

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Hopefully, Trump will do the right thing, and remove tax-exempt status from Episcopalian churches involved with this anti-white racism.

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1 hour ago, Tebok said:

Wrong. Mexico took part in World War II and declared war on the Axis.

Yah I know. But were they really. It’s like saying Canada was in a war.  What I’m referring to is on its own land. Where you know “refugees” would come from 

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Jesus would definetly refuse to help refugees based on politics. 

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10 hours ago, Tebok said:

Episcopals!

Poor Rusty. 

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10 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

Thank you. I was going off the top of my head. Still you get the point. 

South Africa’s history is not parallel to ours despite some similarities mainly because the native population didn’t die off. Try to imagine a United States in which 93% of our population was Native American tribes, yet white people still dominated all businesses and owned almost all of the land. Thats South Africa. 

Yeah, they would all be killing each other like they did before the good guys showed up and set things right. 

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6,533 people from 48 different countries but 50 white people is going to break the system that apparently helps. Seems pretty racist to me. 

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South Africa is a textbook example of what happens when you allow people in power who claim to only want equality but the entire time they just wanted revenge.

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48 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

South Africa is a textbook example of what happens when you allow people in power who claim to only want equality but the entire time they just wanted revenge.

Ummmm, don't look now, but doesn't this aptly describe Trump? Taking vengeance on those that "crossed" him?

[Hardcore troubadour 16,043]

The Somalian refugees in Minneapolis are assimilating quite well. 

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5 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

The Somalian refugees in Minneapolis are assimilating quite well. 

And look at these AfriKaners waving American flags while arriving .

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5 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

The Somalian refugees in Minneapolis are assimilating quite well. 

Yeah.  They're turning Minneapolis into the same sh#thole they came from.