A Kenya pastor, Rosalind Wanyeki and her two children, based in Toronto, face deportation from Canada on Thursday after losing an asylum case. 

Mrs Wanyeki is the founder and senior pastor of North York’s Prayer Reign International Church in Canada.

The deportation of Mrs, Wanyeki, who fled Kenya in 2020, and her daughters, Pearl and Joylene, followed and “immigration hearing at the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) office at Mississauga’s International Centre, where a judge denied the woman’s request to defer their deportation order,” CTV News reported.

Citing documents, CTV News reported that “tickets have been booked for the family on Ethiopian Airlines. Their flight to Nairobi via Addis Ababa is scheduled to leave Pearson International Airport at 10:45 a.m.”

On August 5, before immigration hearing deporting Mrs Wanyeki and her children, the cleric had said “I’ve served the community for those five years (here in Canada) and I pray to be safe.”

The cleric had appealed that her deportation be delayed pending the outcome of her application for permanent residency in Canada.

According to the newspaper, the family was originally scheduled to be removed from the country earlier this year; however, a deferral was granted until June to allow the girls to finish the school year.