Episcopal Church ENDS Refugee Partnership With Government, Claims Resettling White South Africans is ‘Immoral’

The Episcopal Church just announced that it is ending its refugee partnership with the U.S. government.

For nearly 40 years, the Episcopal Church has partnered with the federal government to resettle refugees.

Under Biden’s regime, it took in over $50 million per year to resettle thousands of migrants from countries like Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

However, the church’s leaders are now severing the program because President Trump classified white Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees.

Apparently, this crosses their moral line.

Take a look:

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://t.co/fj7Ktt5f30

— Jack Jenkins (@jackmjenkins) May 12, 2025

The Episcopal Church’s refugee program was getting over $50 Million per year under Biden, and they claim to have resettled 6,533 people from 48 different countries in the U.S. during 2024 alone.

Being asked to resettle <50 white people from South Africa is too much though… https://t.co/TerXE8JcyU pic.twitter.com/ts11DPTLPa

— Parker Thayer (@ParkerThayer) May 12, 2025

A letter from Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe clearly stated:

Since January, the previously bipartisan U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in which we participate has essentially shut down. 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.

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.

Religion News has more:

The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion that boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa.

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“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.”

Rowe stressed that while Episcopal Migration Ministries will seek to “wind down all federally funded services by the end of the federal fiscal year in September,” the denomination will continue to support immigrants and refugees in other ways, such as offering aid to refugees who have already been resettled.

The announcement came just as flights with Afrikaners were scheduled to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., the first batch of entries after Trump declared via a February executive order that the U.S. would take in “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” The South African government has stridently denied allegations of systemic racial animus, as has a coalition of white religious leaders in the region that includes many Anglicans.

“The stated reasons for (Trump’s actions) are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation,” read the letter from white South African religious leaders, which included among its four authors an Anglican priest. “As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims.”

So basically, the persecuted Afrikaners that President Trump recently welcomed into the United States are the wrong color, so the Episcopal Church won’t help them.

Racist much?

For years, white South African families have been targeted, attacked, and had their farmland seizes due to their race. And yet, simply because of their skin color, the Episcopal Church believes they are undeserving of compassion.

Alex Jones hit the nail on the head:

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.

TRANSLATION: If You… pic.twitter.com/zEg1dz9qEU

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) May 12, 2025