An elderly couple threatened with deportation to wartorn Sierra Leone are being allowed to stay in Canada - for the time being.
A deportation order for Arnold and Pamela George has been stayed by a federal judge pending an investigation into whether their appeal was processed properly.
The Georges came to Edmonton in 2003 to be with their daughter, Arnolda, a Canadian citizen.
They were ordered to leave after Citizenship and Immigration Canada turned down their application for refugee status and an appeal based on humanitarian grounds.
Rev. Stephen Hallford of St. Peter's Anglican Church said the commissioner who reviewed the Georges's appeal "discounted (the) danger" they face as Krios, an ethnic and religious minority in Sierra Leone.
The Georges are active members of St. Peter's and the congregation has rallied around them in recent weeks.from the Edmonton Sun
From last Sunday's reading, Isaiah 1: 17 "...learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow."
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