Several southern Manitoba communities have welcomed Afghan refugees in recent weeks and months.
Emery Plett is the Executive Director of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference (EMC), which has its head office in Steinbach. Plett says EMC is partnering with several organizations overseas, but primarily, they are working with the Canadian government to bring Afghan Christian refugees into our country.
Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, Canada Immigration started the Operation Afghan Safety or OAS Program, with a commitment that 40,000 vulnerable Afghans would be welcomed into our country.
Plett says for some of the refugees, not only were they forced to flee their home country that was in turmoil, but as Christian believers, they cannot safely return to Afghanistan. As a result, EMC has been actively bringing some of these refugees into…
