When I first read the headlines on social media claiming the Episcopal Church had announced it was against the doctrine of their faith to help white refugees, I will admit I thought the headlines were clickbait and over blown. However, then I went to read the actual announcement and press release from the Church…. It’s true.
The Episcopal Church has announced, publicly, they were contacted by the federal government as part of an ongoing contract for refugee resettlement, to assist in the transition of white Afrikaner farmers who are fleeing racial violence and given refugee status by the Trump administration.
Specifically, because of the color of their skin, the Episcopal Church is now saying, “in light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice … we are not able to take this step.”
The Church notes their business model using refugee settlement payments from the United States Government has been disrupted by the Trump administration’s pause on funding, and as a result of their no longer getting paid – in combination with the racial profile of the refugees they are now being asked to assist, they will shut down all refugee settlement efforts. It is a stunning statement:
The Episcopal Church – […] “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.” ~ Rev. Sean W. Rowe, Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal Church
Obviously, if we drop all pretending, the decision of the Church is based on their superseding doctrine of money, which, in this clear example, outweighs their doctrine of faith.
If there was ever a racial discrimination lawsuit teed up for the Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division, it would be this one. The Episcopal Church receives government funds for refugee settlement. The Episcopal Church is admitting the color of the refugee skin is a determining factor in their decision-making of who to assist. There is not a clearer example of self-admitted discrimination than this one.
Unfortunately, the DOJ Civil Rights Division is now headed by Deputy AG Harmeet Dhillon, I strongly doubt she will take any action.
CTH has long outlined the “faith-based” motives behind the business end of illegal immigration and refugee settlement. {GO DEEP} Factually, there are many national religious organizations who operate the business of “human trafficking” under the guise of immigration settlement services. {GO DEEP #2} It is an unfortunate reality of the corrupt world we live in.
However, that said, I have not before witnessed a well-known religious denomination so openly proclaim their need to retain racism as a critical variable within their business model.
Perhaps the congregation size within the Episcopalian faith might suffer as a consequence of these admissions.
Another corrupt, false church exposes itself.
President Donald Trump’s incredible power to cause the wicked to rip their masks off and show their true nature is a gift bestowed upon him directly by God.
Change my mind…
How can I change a mind I agree with 🙂 You mean our Liberal churchmen think Jesus loves minorities more than Caucasians?? Oh my! I am right, hey are very naughty folks indeed.
“they are very naughty folks indeed”
It’s a sect not a church
Families arriving waving American flags and that have a history of being productive citizens to their former communities seeking asylum from being terrorized with their property stolen?
Sounds like exactly the type of people we should be welcoming into our nation. I don’t care what color they are.
Shame on any church or faith denying them an escape from what they’ve been enduring in the former homeland.
Several thousand were recruited by Russia. And have established very productive farms.
What “Church Of Faith” are you referring to here?
May I ask who you are quoting? Reread my post please.
It’s ok to be White…
Another NGO on the Government teat. Form a NGO name, beg for Grants, siphon off the cream, milk the public sympathy. Boom, Trump dries up the finances and the NGO is built on sand.
I left the Episcopal Church 20 years ago when I realized that they had become the Church of the Cause of the Day rather than a Church of Christ. I am saddened to realize that they have become even worse over the years.
In the early 1990s I revisited the church I “grw up in”, just keeping my mother company, and was greeted in-my-face with a sign that the Episcopal Church was sunk for good. The preacher was as leftist-liberal as it gets. The words she spoke were an embarrassment to the traditional farming commmunity that I had loved for my entire childhood. There were about 20 people sitting in the pews.
The Episcopal Church was one of the very first to compromise the biblical foundation it was built on, over 30 years ago. Sinking sand.
This is what happens when you go into a “Church” with a woman in the pulpit, in direct violation of what the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy about that position in the Lord’s Church.
It isn’t because she’s a woman in the pulpit. It is because she and the organization that affirms her has taken the Lord’s name in vain by calling themselves “Christian” as a means to reach ungodly goals.
And part of how they go about achieving these ungodly goals is by putting women in the pulpit…
My wife and I did a Boston to Greenland back cruise a while back. One port we visited was Canada…I think St. Johns.
We walked the town and when we saw a magnificent old government building (Town Hall?) up the hill a tad, started our trek.
On the way back down the hill we passed the Episcopal Church, witthata foul gay flag of LBGTXYZ colors painted on the front steps leading up into the church. Normally I would have wanted to enter the Church and see the arhitecture. Not this time. We hurried past and I remembered one of the reasons why I fled that Episcopal Church 30 years ago. It bothers me to no end when I think of it. So I try not to think of it.
Rho…I did the same. I still am listed as a member of the large parish downtown, but haven’t attended for many years. I miss the beautiful music and choir. But, that is about it. I cannot warm-a-pew next to people who think the CAUSE of the DAY is what is needed.
Same here, sadly.
I did the same with the Lutheran church for much the same reason.
Episcopal Church losing tax exempt status in 3…2…1….
What a lovely idea. Surely some dumb hard core lefties will jump on the wagon, forgetting that a foul church is the only church they like.
So… how much time has to pass before the sin is removed? Since when are Christians supposed to impart judgment on what sins are forgivable and other sins are not? How can individuals be appropriately judged by the sins of the majority?
Shame on this so-called “church”. I guess the kids and young adults deserve to be exterminated for what their parents did (who, like all peoples, I’m sure were not a monolith and probably did not all uniformly support the Apartheid regime anyway).
Anti-white racial hatred is alive and well, and I will never be part of any church that engages in it.
I had the same thought. What if I had ancestors from the Deep South who owned slaves? Does that mean I carry the sins of the father and I’m irredeemable? Is it then okay to let hooligans take my property and murder me and my family?
The reasoning of these “Christian faith leaders” escapes me.
I had ancestors who owned slaves and I have no guilt about that fact whatsoever. Reconstruction after the Civil War more than cleared any debts incurred. Several generations (white and black) suffered tremendously in the South no matter if they or their kin owned slaves or not. Greed and “social justice” or “cause of the day” forever drive men to excuse their treatment of their fellow man.
Unbiased research of the events leading to the Civil War will reveal that it was money and politics which drove that war on both sides. Abolishing slavery came later as a “righteous excuse” for what turned into total war (war against civilians). What happened in the Shenandoah Valley and Georgia/South Carolina was rape, pillage and burn with criminal gangs following on the outskirts of the path of the armies.
Even today historians attempt to glorify the northern cause when a reasoning person could sees the effort to be the same as glorifying the Saxon invasion of Britain. None were righteous, no not one.
Obama was elected based on guilt over the wedge issue of race. I remember a time before Obama when race relations were improving in the USA. Fault the history book writers for leaving that weapon for Obama to use.
Communism is what ruined South Africa and the current government is every bit as bad as what came before by any reasonable measure. Beware being a member of organizations of any sort which openly like the Episcopalian church practice blatant discrimination against any group. Organizations like that will self justify killing off the group discriminated against.
Education and virtue (civilization and Christianity) should almost never find an excuse for war or killing. Even when a war is seen as just, like WWII, the deaths and mistreatment of non-combatant women and children will happen.
I will step off the soap box now and end this plea that every effort should be made to see and to see clearly what drives the actions of peoples, governments and even more so large religious organizations. If you see an effort to play to the dark side of human nature then you will know them for what they are.
The atrocities to Southerners during Reconstruction after the Civil War remains taboo –Truthful information is impossible to find on this subject. The Civil War did eliminate a huge amount of vital young men though, another one of the goals.
That’s unfair. Those young vital men were pushing North and shooting. They should have been home, farming.
Possibly Rightedtheship meant vital young men from both sides of the conflict were eliminated………
old estimates: ~620 thousand men from the two sides and who knows how many women and children were lost or had their lives destroyed.
new estimates: In 2011, historian J. David Hacker conducted further investigations and claimed that the number was closer to 750,000 (and possibly as high as 850,000).
The point is that any effort to glorify this worst death toll war of all American wars from either viewpoint is grotesque. Other nations managed to end slavery without committing national suicide.
Do you mean atrocities by terrorists like Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and White Legion? It is sort of a taboo to mention it though if you dig you can find things like George Rable’s “But There Was No Peace”
Much like the Episcopalian church was not initially a racist and greedy money changer organization but morphed into one?
Local efforts to provide some measure of safety for family and friends from abusive and violent re constructionists morphed after appeals to the dark side of human nature into racist secretive societies of hate.
Same here, slave-owner ancestors. and dittos on every soap-box word.
Great post thank you
It’s not reason, that’s why.
I work for a non for profit. It’s now headed by a minority, but in the past it wasn’t. My immediate supervisor is white and really, really wants to become obsolete in light of the past. I think it’s silly. The past is the past.
Am I wrong, but wasn’t the lady preacher that dissed President Trump on Inauguration Day an Episcopal? If so, the hypocrisy is disgusting
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, D C National Cathedral: Episcopalian.
Yes she was
Yes, she (it) was.
The Church hierarchy is beyond repair.
Walk away from this corrupt “church”, they are a racist institution.
I guess that they’re planning on usurping the congregations of the M.B. and A.M.E. churches to replace all the white people who are no longer welcome.
Look at the history of the Episcopal church. Founded 1534 not for the purpose of Henry 8’s divorce but to loot the property of the English Catholic Church to pay for Henry’s extravagant spending. By 1530 he had run through the vast inheritance from his father and Beaufort grandmother. And was still building more and more extravagant palaces He built more palaces than any other country in Europe. At a time long before England had an empire. That, paying for his extravagant spending was the real reason for his split from Rome. Theft of property to pay for his lifetime if unchecked extravagance
Is that the lesbian bishop that lectured Trump the Sunday after his inauguration?
Church of England and Episcopals have always been the gayest of Christian churches. When the Church of England decided to ordain women priests every single one was a lesbian. Complete with a lesbian wife. Which drive the few remaining parishioners away. As the lesbians used the churches to push their radical left agenda. Time to defund all these churches that use our taxes to being in primitive Hispanics and even worse Muslim Somalian Africans. The takeover of Minneapolis and parts of Wisconsin by the Somalians is largely a project of the Lutheran church. No one goes to church any more. So no more donations from the faithful. So the Christian churches all of then became Non profit parasites on out tax money. Bringing in not just Hispanic Christian’s b
Ex Lutheran here.
Elisabeth Nickson (Substack) produced a scathing piece a month ago on the “charities” of the Lutheran church and their copy-cats. 3 months ago she let loose on the Anglican church of England, for their rapacious policies. Money laundering, theft, leaving little town churches to die off. Made me quite angry.
She is from Canada, a conservative, brilliant, and formerly of that inner most inner circles. She knows these snakes like no one else, and could not get any of her stuff printed until she joined Substack.
@Rick
Here is the link to one of the essays that you referenced: https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-deep-church-trafficks-children. It’s dated 2025.03.02.
I still have not found the other essay. Do you have a link to it?
Bishop Rowe clearly does not (or refuses to) get it: White citizens of SA are the people “on the margins”. White SA citizens are the ones being driven off their farms, harassed, and in some cases murdered in cold blood.
But I’m not surprised … this is the denomination that coronated Mariann Edgar Budde to lead their flagship American church, the D C National Cathedral. Episcopalian hypocrisy is apparently unbounded.
The prep school Tucker and his future wife attended, St. George’s near Newport RI, is one of the New England Episcopal boarding school “stars.” Others with famous graduates are St. Paul’s in NH (John Kerry, Robert Mueller), Middlesex (Ben Bradlee) and Groton (FDR) in MA, Choate (JFK, and his older brother, Joseph) in CT. They were founded mostly in the late 19th c., copying British boarding schools, and endowed heavily by the likes of J. P. Morgan. They’re all now co-ed and many have female Episcopal clergy in leadership positions.
It seems to me that God has been showing us every single day at least since November 5th 2025, how
the world has been run for the longest time. Exposing the dark inners of the individual institutions that
we once had “faith” in.
As soon as I saw this I knew it was about them being mad about their income source being cut off.
This in yiddish is called a Shanda = a Shame.
And how ironic that a phrase that South Africans use when you tell them unfortunate news is – shame.
I got a bad haircut – shame. I was in a car accident – shame.
This is a yuge SHAME on the Episcopal Church leaders.
Amen! Thank you, Sundance.
The first to have homosexual bishops….why does this surprise anyone?
and women ‘priests’
Episcopalian is a cult not a Christian Bible-based religion.
…One day, as these Episcopalians stand before the Judgement Seat : 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And the Lord’s reply: 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity…
Same with the National Council of Churches, and most christian denominations, they are anti-Christian institutions, legalistic and religious. The modern “generation of vipers.”
Anyone still attending the Episcopal Church is gay, trans, confused, grifting, or tending Communist. I left 30 years ago and it has only gotten worse. Sad state of fairies.
As a conservative and generational Episcopalian, I have observed many changes in the church over the last 50 or 60 years. During those changes, I’ve also changed and appreciate the open arms the Episcopal church has offered to people who do not feel welcome in church. Yes, they welcome gays and lesbians and people of all races. And for that, I am grateful. PERIOD! And yes…I am a conservative, not a communist.
None of us walk into a church worthy of the love that God offers us. None of us.
So the openness of the Episcopal Church has been a good thing for me to witness and open my eyes to the hearts and minds of those different from me. They to are seeking a closeness with God and God’s community.
Because of this evolution on my part and seeing the value of opening my heart to all people I have stayed in the Episcopal Church. However, I understand and agree that it has become very political over the last 15 to 20 years, even more so in the last five. The focus on race/politics from the top leadership has put the survival of the denomination in jeopardy for sure, but to conclude they are fairies is unattractive. And yes….I know you meant it to be a clever pun, but sorry…nope.
There’s plenty of other churches willing to help.
So very disheartening. The love of many “will wax cold”.
While the press is silent about the plight and persecution of these farmers.
I’m pretty sure there is a name that describes the action of using skin color as a determination. In that I do not give a damn of this religious sect I suppose they would not care of my opinion of them.
The Episcopal Church is a disgrace.
I can respect a religion that is true to its own doctrine and scriptures. The Episcopalians are NOT. They believe nothing, stand for nothing, shift with the winds chasing the latest thing.
Doesn’t take long before someone with CDS (Catholic Derangement Syndrome) to throw in an idiotic, snide remark regarding the Catholic Church in the discussion regarding the episcopal church.
I feel sorry for you.
This certainly puts a lie to the claim by Episcopalians that they talk directly with God.