Tag: persecution
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Lawton Gallery has opening reception for ‘ZAM’ on Thursday, Oct. 10
Food and beverages will also be provided at the opening reception. ZAM is an exhibition presenting select works and collections by Hmong French American artist Oskar Ly. Due to persecution and … Read Full Article
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Thailand: Authorities must investigate abduction of Vietnamese journalist
Others who have been handed over in recent years to face persecution in their home countries include Moua Toua Ter, an ethnic Hmong leader from Laos, deported from Bangkok to Laos in June 2014; Sam … Read Full Article
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Letters to the Editor: Resenting tribe’s actions; Andy’s right, sorta; Refugee tide is destructive
After the Vietnam war ended, thousands of Hmong from Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam moved to our city. To avoid persecution, our federal government had agreed to help relocate those individuals and … Read Full Article
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9 Things You Should Know About Global Persecution of Christians (2019 Edition)
In April 2018, police in Tuong Duong District disrupted a Hmong worship group affiliated with the government-sponsored Evangelical Church of Vietnam (Northern Region), claiming it was not properly … Read Full Article
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Hmong: Religious Persecution Continues in Vietnam
Below is an article published by the South China Morning Post: Foua, a farmer in his 30s, has spent three months behind bars in Vietnam’s northwestern province of Dien Bien. He will remain there for … Read Full Article
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Powerful Photos of What Was Left Behind by America’s Secret War in Laos
While she frequently returns to the country, it was her husband’s first time there since, as a young boy, he fled with his family, crossing the Mekong River and escaping state persecution of the Hmong … Read Full Article
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40 years on, refugees still feel warm embrace of their sponsors
Chong Lee with wife Bao and daughter Ka at the refugee camp in Thailand in 1978. (SUPPLIED PHOTO) Lee-Paine’s father, Chong Lee, and mother, Bao, were among the Hmong minority who had fled persecution … Read Full Article
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‘Forever grateful to them.’ 40 years on, refugees still feel warm embrace of their sponsors
Article Continued Below Lee-Paine’s father, Chong Lee, and mother, Bao, were among the Hmong minority who had fled persecution in Laos in 1975 for assisting Americans in the Vietnam War. Both Lee-Pain… Read Full Article
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33 Vietnamese Christians Terrorized by Government for Refusing to Bow Down to Buddha
Vietnamese government officials assaulted and arrested several Hmong Christians after they refused to renounce their faith in Christ according to the persecution watchdog group, International Christia… Read Full Article
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Authorities in Vietnam Demand 33 Hmong Renounce Their Faith
Religious persecution against Hmong Christians in Vietnam appears to be ramping up. Watchdog group International Christian Concern (ICC) reports that last November and December in the village of Phá L… Read Full Article
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Vietnamese Religious Minorities Continue to Face Persecution
Members of the Duong Van Minh religion, which combines elements of Christianity and traditional Hmong practices, regularly have their religious funeral sheds destroyed by the government and are arrest… Read Full Article
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Vietnamese Religious Minorities Continue to Face Persecution
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Members of the Duong Van Minh religion, which combines elements of Christianity and traditional Hmong practices, regularly have their religious funeral sheds destroyed by the government and are arrest… Read Full Article
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Women’s History Month Lecture Series: Hmong in America: One Woman’s Journey
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At 9 years of age, Blia Vang Schwahn fled Laos with her family to escape government persecution of the Hmong people. By the time she was a teenager she was living in Eau Claire. Today, she is the Hmong school and community liaison for the Eau Claire Area … Read Full Article
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CVM hosts Women’s History Month lecture series
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March 27: Hmong in America, One Woman’s Journey. At 9 years of age, Blia Vang Schwahn fled Laos with her family to escape government persecution of the Hmong people. By the time she was a teenager she was living in Eau Claire. Today, she is the Hmong … Read Full Article
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Lenten Worship Series continues at First United Methodist
“Boldness in the Face of Persecution”, from Pastor Tom Mount, 9 and 11 a.m.in the dome. Weds.: Bible Study, 7 p.m. First United Methodist: 45 Acacia Ave.: Hmong worship service, 8:30 a.m. Pastor Chuckua Yang. A covered-dish dinner will follow. Read Full Article
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Hmong: Refugees in the US Recounts His Story of Escape from Persecution and Ethnic Cleansing.
Members of the Hmong community in Minnesota, United States recount their history and ordeal to escape persecution and state violence in Vietnam and Laos. Through cultural activities such as those happening in the St. Paul Hmong Cultural Center, the Hmong … Read Full Article
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Give The Gift Of Literary Empathy
8. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman (Non-Fiction) You may have never heard of the Hmong, an indigenous group that fled China en mass in the face of persecution … Read Full Article
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La Crosse farmers markets: Vendors come from near and far
At the Cameron Park Market, as well as at most other area farmers markets, there are a number of Hmong vendors. Their ancestors originally lived in southern China, and there they suffered ethnic persecution and war. In the late 1800s, Hmong families … Read Full Article