Organization refuses to be ‘guided’ by ‘political vagaries’
By Bob Unruh
The Episcopal Migration Ministries, which took in $53 million in tax funding to resettle 3,600 people in 2023 alone, is abandoning the next round of refugees, refusing to resettle them.
They are white.
The refugee branch of the church organization has worked for decades, on taxpayer funding, to settle refugees from various sources around the world.
But in a letter obtained by the Gateway Pundit, officials announced they are quitting.
“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,” the organization informed the government.
“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. 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,” it said.
The church group claimed, “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. Jesus tells us to care for the poor and vulnerable as we would care for him, and we must follow that command.