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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Yonat Shimron

‘We don’t get to discriminate’: How a Raleigh ministry decided to help resettle Afrikaners

APTOPIX South Africa US Refugees - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The 12×30-foot storage unit in a Raleigh, North Carolina, suburb is crammed full of chairs, tables, mattresses, lamps, pots and pans.

Most of its contents will soon be hauled off to two apartments that Welcome House Raleigh is furnishing for three newly arrived refugees. It’s a job the ministry, which is a project of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, has handled countless times on behalf of newly arrived refugees from such places as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria and Venezuela.

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