by Brendan LaRocque | Apr 4, 2017 | Action Steps, Community, Muslim, Religion
FINDING COMPASSION AND CONNECTION IN HARD TIMES By Brendan LaRocque Having recently finished leading a study abroad program in India with a group of college students from Minnesota, before returning home I’ve come to stay at my family-in-law’s home in the large north...
by Unite Cloud | Mar 6, 2017 | Black, Central MN Stories, Community, Education, Race, Religion
One of our favorite things to do here at #unitecloud is speak to students, giving them tools to stand up against hate, and allowing them to share their stories with their classmates of what they’ve witnessed and what they themselves have been through. This year, we...
by Melissa Marolf | Feb 26, 2017 | Action Steps, Central MN Stories, Immigration, Muslim, Politics, Refugee, Religion, Somali
On November 9, 2016, the day after Donald J. Trump was elected to become the 45th President of the United States of America, I had to have some difficult conversations with the refugee and immigrant teenagers whom I teach at Apollo High School in St. Cloud, Minnesota....
by Natalie Copeland | Feb 3, 2017 | Action Steps, Central MN Stories, Community, Immigration, Muslim, Refugee, Religion, Somali
Here at #unitecloud, we want you to be able to speak intelligently about the refugee crisis in our world, our country’s role in it, and what the executive order/temporary ban means for refugees “yearning to breathe free”. One of the great misunderstandings that we...
by Unite Cloud | Jan 28, 2017 | Action Steps, Immigration, Muslim, Politics, Refugee, Religion, Somali
784,000 refugees have settled in the United States since 9/11. Guess how many have carried out fatal terrorist attacks? ZERO. And yet….on Holocaust Remembrance Day, our President signed an executive order barring many refugees and immigrants from entering...
by Unite Cloud | Jan 13, 2017 | Religion
On January 27, 1945 the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Soviet troops while Allied forces marched through Europe, freeing the continent from the tyranny of Nazi Germany. Seventy-two years later, do we remember the atrocities of the brutal Nazi...