| Resolution Number: | 1988-D113 |
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| Title: | Urge Support to Refugees in Hong Kong |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Substituted |
| Final Text: | |
Resolved, That the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief be urged to support humanitarian assistance and ministry to the Hong Kong refugee camps to help ease the pain of the residents ; and be it further
Resolved, That the Executive Council be urged to facilitate service to refugees in Hong Kong by a Volunteer for Mission, or by other appropriate means; and be it further
Resolved, That the Episcopal Church's Washington Office communicate this Church's concern to the President of the United States, to the Secretary of State, to the Ambassador for Refugee Resettlement, specifically to the Chairs of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and to the Immigration and Refugee Subcommittees in the Congress ; and be it further
Resolved, That the United States and Great Britain reconsider their de facto policy virtually to cease their resettlement in Hong Kong, and that they reassert their leadership in the family of nations by providing humanitarian assistance to victims of persecution from Vietnam and elsewhere; and be it further
Resolved, That the Episcopal Church request the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Hong Kong to call on the government of Hong Kong to reconsider its new policy and continue its generous assistance to refugees.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Detroit, 1988 (New York: General Convention, 1989), p. 292. |
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Legislative History
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| Originating House: | House of Deputies |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on National and International Problems |
House of Deputies
Original Text of Resolution:
(D113)
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief recruit, train and underwrite at least one member to serve in a Hong Kong refugee camp to help ease the pain of the residents; and be it further
Resolved, that the Episcopal Church's Washington Office communicate this Church's concern that the government of the United States reconsider its de facto policy virtually to close its resettlement of refugees now in Hong Kong, and that it reassert its leadership in the family of nations in providing humanitarian assistance to victims of persecution in Vietnam; and be it further
Resolved, that the Episcopal Church call on the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Hong Kong to call on the government of Hong Kong to reconsider its new policy and continue its generous assistance to refugees fleeing Vietnam.
Proposed Committee Substitute:
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief be urged to support humanitarian assistance and ministry to the Hong Kong refugee camps to help ease the pain of the residents; and be it further
Resolved, That the Executive Council be urged to facilitate service to refugees in Hong Kong by a Volunteer for Mission, or by other appropriate means; and be it further
Resolved, That the Episcopal Church's Washington Office communicate this Church's concern to the President of the United States, to the Secretary of State, to the Ambassador for Refugee Resettlement, especially to the Chairs of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and to the Immigration and Refugee Subcommittees in the Congress; and be it further
Resolved, That the United States and Great Britain reconsider their de facto policy virtually to cease their resettlement in Hong Kong, and that they reassert their leadership in the family of nations by providing humanitarian assistance to victims of persecution from Vietnam and elsewhere; and be it further
Resolved, That the Episcopal Church request the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Hong Kong to call on the government of Hong Kong to reconsider its new policy and continue its generous assistance to refugees.
Motion carried
Substitute resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #231)
House of Bishops
The Committee on National and International Affairs [sic] presented its Report #30 on House of Deputies Message #231 on Resolution D113s (Hong Kong Refugees) and moved concurrence.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #342)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 10.
| Abstract: | The 69th General Convention urges assistance and ministry to Hong Kong refugee camps and calls the governments of the U.S. and Great Britain to reconsider their policy. |
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