AP / Yahoo News: South African church to evict hundreds of refugees - "help those new to the city integrate into an unforgiving urban environment." [And here I thought South Africa was going to become this wonderful ever more prosperous vibrant Rainbow Nation of love and 'reconciliation,' at least as promised to Whites who voted themselves out of power, with a lot of clueless, and not so clueless, international pressure.]

South African church to evict hundreds of refugees

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The New Year brings an uncertain future for more than 500 people who are being evicted from the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg, which has been a haven for refugees and homeless for the past 14 years.

Messages of thanks and praise are scrawled onto the church's walls, tributes to Bishop Paul Verryn who opened the house of worship to the needy.

In one of Johannesburg's grittiest blocks, the Methodist church offered shelter to those who fled neighboring Zimbabwe and other troubled African countries, as well as South Africa's own homeless. Verryn believes the church has the responsibility to be more than a place of worship and to help those new to the city integrate into an unforgiving urban environment.

Verryn's policy was controversial as the church became a teeming dormitory. ...

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