BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. https://religionnews.com/2025/05/12/episcopal-church-ends-refugee-resettlement-citing-moral-opposition-to-resettling-white-afrikaners/
Comments
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mariann-budde-trump-sermon-reaction/
Everyone could do more, but there are so many hills to die on now that there's hardly a point to worrying about which hill people pick, as long as they have one.
just because you didn't see stories about us doesn't mean we haven't been vocally opposing this shit in our communities all along. don't fall into that fallacy.
There have also been 2 instances of clergy arrests at the capitol in the past 2 wks. https://bsky.app/profile/politico.com/post/3lolnkezxnk2s
A lot of people have no idea how important this is.
Wait what?
WHAT
Oh.
Oh hell yeah good call
This is a moral, courageous, principled act!
Connections need to be maintained.
'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'
-Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
These POOR WHITE VICTIMS…🤮🤮🤮
Explain it to me like I’m 10 years old.
The administration and the refugees should be forced to admit that it’s about race. (It’s always about race with white supremacists).
This lazy conflation of Afrikaner and White African helps no-one.
"Afrikaner" is not a synonym for either of those things.
Imo, the afrikaners should be encouraged to stay in South Africa, where despite losing their white privilege, they still have a better chance of success than many Black South Africans.
Share the News!!
I've seen pictures of the Afrikaners and they look like MAGAs but a church seems to be doing the right thing.
Hey Google, how many different versions of Christianity are there?
“Estimations show there are more than 200 Christian denominations in the U.S. and a staggering 45,000 globally."
Google, do you think all of them are going to make the cut?
[Silence]
<<
Let's see how quickly the cause of white immigration is taken up by the prosperity-gospel Evangelicals...
<<
There's no " via media" on hatefulness.
They are not welcome in 🇺🇸.
Still an Atheist, tho……
What T offered them is OUTRAGEOUS, CUTTING THE LINE, we need to voice our opposition and let them know THEY ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.
Turn the tables on MAGA and tell them to GO BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
There are parts in Tanakh we keep that we know are awful, like the Amalek narrative.
But we didn’t take it out.
We live in hope.
I’m sure this was Elon‘s doing and I am so glad that it didn’t work
Enough.
Get your bootstraps out and start pulling up!!!
Gonna guess these kids probably aren’t the most savory types.
We should put them in a camp and make sure they’re ok enough to be here.
There’s one in El Salvador.
(Raised Episcopalian but not active…maybe it’s time to get back in action…)
The Lord sees all.
"Vengeance is mine. I will repay."
And now, another 'mainline' church puts some daylight between themselves and the Radicals.
Signs of Hope...?
But this isn't your sweet little old auntie saying her rosary every day. This is an apocalyptic anti-freedom cult.
It is, however, about to get *real*.
It Fits!
Churches starting to react in righteous ways … Catholics, now Episcopalians!
💔🤦🏼💔
There is a sinister master plan here and so it’s coming to pass. WTF Military?!
How appropriate!
In direct contrast to other immigrant populations, these people should not be welcomed.
We are having issues with a lot of people moving to Texas at high speed.
Native Texans are gonna hate these white South Africans that are moving here in large numbers because of that alone.
They will be treated the same way people from California are treated in Texas.
This morality is why.
https://bsky.app/profile/conspiranon.bsky.social/post/3loyi7q25bc24