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Minnesota’s Somali residents are served by a mix of long-established Somali-led nonprofits (Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota/CSCM, Somali Community Resettlement Services, Somali Multi Se...
Reporting available for this query does not produce a clear roll call of prominent evangelical leaders who publicly endorsed President Trump’s stated mass‑deportation plan; instead the record in the s...
A broad array of mainstream Christian leaders and denominations publicly rebuked President Trump’s mass-deportation proposals as inconsistent with Christian teaching on mercy and care for the vulnerab...
Somali refugee resettlement to Minnesota began in earnest in the early 1990s after Somalia’s civil war, grew rapidly through the 1990s and 2000s into the largest concentration of Somalis outside Afric...
Somali-led organizations act as hubs that deliver culturally and linguistically specific health and social services to refugees and immigrants, working alongside faith-based resettlement agencies such...
Since 2015 Minnesota faith groups — both Muslim and non-Muslim — have reshaped worship, social services and neighborhood outreach to meet the needs of a growing Somali population by partnering with re...
Islamic financial principles—most centrally the prohibition on riba (interest)—alter how many Somali Minnesotans can use mainstream mortgages and business loans, creating both barriers to conventional...
Most mainstream fact-checks find that common anti-immigrant claims — that immigrants take U.S. jobs, raise crime, or overly burden public budgets — are incorrect or overstated: multiple policy institu...
Major drivers of Somali migration and settlement in Minnesota since 2005 are refugee resettlement pathways (including VOLAGS and refugee agencies), the existence of a large, established Somali communi...