Church is welcoming poor country’s folk (8)
I believe the answer is:
chileans
'church is welcoming poor country's folk' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'church is welcoming poor' is the wordplay.
'church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'welcoming' indicates putting letters inside (in sense of 'inviting in').
'poor' becomes 'lean' ().
'is' going around 'lean' is 'ileans'.
'ch'+'ileans'='CHILEANS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chileans that I've seen before include "countrymen" , "Natives of South America's longest country" , "Natives of Santiago, say" , "people in Santiago" .)