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Minnesotans oppose anti-Muslim sentiment with message of support
The Minnesota Council of Churches is leading an effort to oppose anti-Muslim sentiment with a message campaign using yard signs. The lawn signs read, “To our Muslim neighbors: Blessed Ramadan.” An...
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Southern Baptists vote to support refugee resettlement
The Southern Baptist Convention have voted to approve a resolution encouraging member churches and families to welcome refugees coming to the United States. An article at Christian Post has the vote...
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What it’s like to be an SIV immigrant
The U.S. Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, under which Iraqi and Afghan interpreters and others who worked for the United States during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are permitted to immigrate,...
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Canadian priest allegedly gambled away $500,000 of refugee aid
A Canadian Catholic priest has been charged with stealing over $500,000 intended for resettling Syrian refugees, and then gambling it away. An article in The Guardian has the details: A Canadian...
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College Station community unites after Mosque shooting
The College Station community in Texas has come out in strong support of a local mosque that was found with five bullet holes following gunfire last Friday — no doubt a gift from the political...
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Most refugees resettled in US in last decade are Christian
According to State Department Refugee Processing Center data about 46.5 percent of all refugees resettled into the United States from Jan. 1, 2006, until Dec. 31, 2015, are Christians. While over...
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Where would Christianity be if Jesus had refused to participate “out of...
That is the question posed by pastor at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne, Wyoming. After a group of people in Gillette set fire to a Quran to publicize their goal to “ban Islam from...
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Tennessee Governor No Longer Opposes Resettlement In State
Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee said today that he’s had a change of heart and no longer opposes resettling Syrian refugees or any other refugees in the state. Haslam was one of the thirty republican...
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Indiana argues that singling out all Syrian refugees not based on national...
This is a head scratcher. Although the state of Indiana lost the court case over Gov. Mike Pence’s attempt to withhold benefits from Syrian refugees based on nebulous “security concerns”, it is now...
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Refugee raised in Fargo may be first former refugee to commit terror act in US
A 20-year-old 23-year-old Somali man by the name of Dahir Adan who was resettled in Fargo in the mid-1990s when he was 1-year-old has been identified as the attacker who knifed 10 people Saturday at a...
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