Episcopal church won’t assist resettling South Africans ‘refugees’ in US

The Episcopal Church in the United States is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white Afrikaans-speaking South Africans granted refugee status.

Its presiding Bishop, Sean Rowe, said on Monday that the church’s migration ministries will instead halt its decades-long partnership with the government.

Rowe said the church has a longstanding “commitment to racial justice and reconciliation” and that it…