Letter to the editor: Parish refugee sponsorships strike 'a different chord'
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article39122
- Author
- Street, Robert A.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2016 May
- Author
- Street, Robert A.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2016 May
- Volume
- 142
- Issue
- 5
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- "The broad coverage of parishes sponsoring refugees and the pride of many parishioners in their efforts strikes a different chord with me, and I ask: why aren't parishes specifically sponsoring Christian refugee families ? What about our many homeless veterans who are still on the street ? Do they not deserve greater attention than persons of different culture, ethnic and cultural backgrounds ? And what about out Indigenous Canadians with no potable water in many Canadian provinces ? Shouldn't these national issues be our top priorities ? And further to the letter by Archbishop John Clarke about the issue of dioceses not investing in oil companies ('Why the silence ?', March 2016, Letters, p. 4): will those who made that decision stop purchasing gasoline, furnace oil and Canadian natural gas and forego plane travel to show their 'dedication' to a very hypocritical decision ? I think not". [Text of entire article.]
- Subjects
- Refugees - Canada
- Refugees - Canada - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Disinvestment - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Oil industries - Canada
- Oil industries - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Hypocrisy - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada