Episcopal Church leaders showed their true colors Monday, announcing the Church would end a migrant resettlement partnership with the US federal government in opposition to President Donald Trump’s effort to resettle persecuted white Afrikaner refugees from South Africa, calling it a racist plan.
In a letter to congregants, Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe said the Church would cease its decades-long federal “refugee resettlement grant agreements,” citing the Church’s “steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.”
“Since January, the previously bipartisan U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in which we participate has essentially shut down,” Bishop Rowe wrote. “Virtually no new refugees have arrived, hundreds of staff in resettlement agencies around the country have been laid off, and funding for resettling refugees who have already arrived has been uncertain. Then, just over two weeks ago, the federal 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.”
Rowe went on to claim Afrikaners were receiving special treatment, while others were just as deserving.
“It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years,” Rowe wrote. “I am saddened and ashamed that many of the refugees who are being denied entrance to the United States are brave people who worked alongside our military in Iraq and Afghanistan and now face danger at home because of their service to our country. I also grieve that victims of religious persecution, including Christians, have not been granted refuge in recent months.”
Rather than work with the Trump administration to help yet another oppressed group, Bishop Rowe said he’d end their partnership entirely.
“As Christians, we must be guided not by political vagaries, but by the sure and certain knowledge that the kingdom of God is revealed to us in the struggles of those on the margins,” Bishop Rowe claimed, ignoring the Church’s political decision to abandon the marginalized white South Africans.
“Jesus tells us to care for the poor and vulnerable as we would care for him, and we must follow that command,” he continued. “Right now, what that means is ending our participation in the federal government’s refugee resettlement program and investing our resources in serving migrants in other ways.“
According to ReligionNews.com, the Church’s decision came as Afrikaner refugees began arriving in Washington, D.C. on Monday, footage of which circulated on social media.
In a February executive order, the Trump administration condemned South Africa’s treatment of its Afrikaner population, outlining an initiative to “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”
President Donald Trump on Monday highlighted the plight of white farmers in South Africa, telling reporters, “It’s a genocide that’s taken place that you people don’t want to write about.”
The South African Dutch descendants, known as Afrikaners and “Boers,” have been targeted for violence for nearly four decades, with over 3,000 primarily white farmers being murdered in racially motivated attacks, as the country’s government confiscates their land without compensation.
By opposing Trump’s effort to help people of the wrong color, the Episcopal Church appears to have revealed itself as a highly racist institution truly undeserving of receiving federal tax dollars.
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