I'm not sure we've ever published a story that sounds this much like The Babylon Bee before.
It truly boggles the mind.
The Episcopal Church has been partnering with the government for decades to resettle refugees.
But the minute the Trump administration began giving refugee status to a white people group, the church shut it down.
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.'
Rowe went on to discuss the church's relationship with the late archbishop Desmond Tutu, who opposed South Africa apartheid and was part of the Global Anglican Communion that includes the Episcopal Church.
As to the plight of white Afrikaners, let me remind you what is happening to their minority population on a daily basis:
Does the Episcopal Church want white Afrikaners to be left in South Africa to die?
President Trump referenced this situation earlier Monday:
Oh, did I mention?
It's literally 59 white Afrikaners we're talking about here.
These are a few of the families:
It's not like it's tens of thousands of third-world refugees being dumped on some random town in Ohio.
(The Episcopal Church would support that!)
'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.'
They'd rather cancel the whole program than resettle 50 white people??
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