Tag: persecution
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Minnesota struggles to catch up as minority mental health needs grow
That realization has reshaped approaches to treatment in recent years for a growing number of providers of color. As a Hmong-American, Alyssa Vang, a psychologist and cultural competency trainer, knew oppression, persecution and genocide dominated Hmong … Read Full Article
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The United Nations Has No Business Setting US Refugee Policy in Southeast Asia
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Several thousand Montagnards, Hmong, Vietnamese, and others remain in Thailand, seeking asylum after fleeing persecution in Vietnam, or having lost their homes and lands as punishment or through illegal seizure. Many of these refugees can provide … Read Full Article
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Vietnam: Imprisoned pastor eats insects, mice and frogs to survive
“Among the Hmong, I personally know about 400 people who have escaped to Thailand,” he said. “Among other ethnic groups, there are about 400 to 500 as well.” Persecution grows as the church grows. The ministry’s indigenous evangelists have seen … Read Full Article
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Laos’s new cardinal: “poverty, suffering and persecution are the three columns that strengthen the Church”
On 16 and June 17, about 350 Hmong, Kmhmu, Lao and Karen Catholics gathered in Belleville (Illinois, US) to experience and celebrate the 17 martyrs of Laos, their native country, with gratitude and thanksgiving for their exemplary life of faith. Read Full Article
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What does it mean to have no homeland? This haunting poetry searches for answers
But Vang was curious about the history of her family and of the Hmong people, an ethnic group that has existed for centuries without a formal homeland, though they have lived most often in southeast Asia. Scholars believe the Hmong fled persecution in … Read Full Article
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Hmong history lessons should be mandatory
GREEN BAY – The article “Should Hmong history lesson be required?” discussed a bill requiring educating public students of the role Hmong people played fighting with the U.S. during the Vietnam War, the persecution they faced from the Laotian … Read Full Article
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St. Paul Recruits Citizen Advocates to Pick New City Bank
St. Paul City Councilmember Dai Thao was about five or six when he became a refugee. As members of the Hmong ethnic minority in Laos, his family was among many escaping persecution from the Laotian government. He lost two sisters and a brother on the way … Read Full Article
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The US’s Stateless People: How Immigration Gaps Create Poverty
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Tags: Asia, California, child, Fresno, government, Laos, people, persecution, refugees, Southeast AsiaFresno, California — They came to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s as child refugees, members of the Hmong minority in Laos fleeing that country’s new communist government and persecution for helping the CIA in its covert war in Southeast Asia. Read Full Article
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Stateless People: How Immigration Gaps Create Poverty in the US
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Tags: Asia, California, child, Fresno, government, Laos, people, persecution, refugees, Southeast AsiaFresno, California — They came to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s as child refugees, members of the Hmong minority in Laos fleeing that country’s new communist government and persecution for helping the CIA in its covert war in Southeast Asia. Read Full Article
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America’s Stateless Hmong
They came to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s as child refugees, members of the Hmong minority in Laos fleeing that country’s new communist government and persecution for helping the CIA in its covert war in Southeast Asia, looking for the … Read Full Article