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The three-day event will explore strategies for engaging high school students in challenging conversations about fundamental moral and political questions.

A driving simulator provided by last spring’s Joplin Interfaith Coalition bake sale has been providing refugees with driving training, an important step to acclimating to their new home.

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He had spent his entire career attending to the horrors of terrorism and war, and now Chris George, 70, believed it was his responsibility to act again. He sat at his desk inside Connecticut’s largest refugee resettlement agency, trying to write a public statement about the violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip that had resurfaced traumas among his staff, and in his own personal history. “We believe that all human life is precious and should be protected,” he wrote in mid-Oc...

Chris George has lived in Israel and Gaza, where he was once held hostage. As his employees ask him to speak out on the latest war, he is torn.

Hartford’s Charter Oak Boxing Academy has been awarded a $50,000 grant to continue its work helping youth in the city. The grant, awarded through the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, will help the academy to continue expanding its youth development program. The academy takes a holistic approach, focusing on personal development and life skills education, according to its website. ...

'I think we fundamentally underestimate how much our kids can learn even about the biggest and most important issues of today. We just need to teach th ...

Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, or IRIS, helps refugees and other displaced people establish a fresh start in Connecticut. Soon there will be new...

After traffickers forced Haitian asylum seekers to pay rent to stay in abandoned apartments, community leaders call on the city to step up response.