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Episcopal Church Ends 40-Year Resettlement Relationship With U.S. Government Over White South African ‘Refugees'
The Episcopal Church has ended a nearly 40-year relationship with the federal government, citing moral opposition in refusing to resettle white Africans from South Africa classified as refugees by the ...
Episcopal Church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status in US
The Episcopal Church’s migration service is refusing a directive from the U.S. federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status.
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Why the Episcopal Church is declining to participate in Trump's refugee plan
The administration’s response to the Episcopal Church was swift and vicious ... the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa once said. “If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a ...
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White House slams Episcopal Church's refusal to resettle white South Africans
The White House questioned Tuesday the humanitarian commitment of the influential Episcopal Church after it refused to comply with a federal directive to help resettle white Afrikaners granted refugee ...
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MAGA Attacks Church Over Donald Trump Rebuke: 'Funds MUST Be Pulled'
But Rowe said this request posed a moral dilemma for the Episcopal Church, which has deep ties to the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and counts the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu—an outspoken ...
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Episcopal Church halts refugee partnership with feds over white South Africans
The Episcopal ... from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees,” Presiding Bishop Sean W. Rowe said in a Monday letter. “In light of our church’s steadfast ...
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Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
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 ...
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Episcopal Church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status in U.S.
The Episcopal ... “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 ...
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Episcopal Church says it won't help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status in US
The Episcopal ... “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 ...
Episcopal Church says it won’t help Trump resettle White South Africans
The church is ending its refugee resettlement deal with the government rather than resettle Afrikaners it feels were given ...
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Episcopal Church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status in US
The Episcopal ... “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 ...
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Episcopal Church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status
The Episcopal ... “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 ...