South Africa: Unholy Fight to Help Refugee Children

Johannesburg — THE alleged reluctance of the Central Methodist Church to facilitate the relocation of refugee children living in the institution has set the church against the Gauteng legislature.

On Friday, head of the inner-city church Bishop Paul Verryn walked out of a meeting meant to establish a task team to spearhead the removal of about 120 children from squalid conditions at the institution. This enraged the legislature's multiparty health and social development committee, whose chairwoman , Molebatsi Bopape, threatened to subpoena Verryn.

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