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Greater Columbus' foreign-born population has grown from around 9% in 2005 to nearly 13% in 2021, due largely to influxes of Asians and Africans.

A leadership academy for New Americans has trained 100 people in Columbus since 2019 — some of whom went on to win elected office

The COVID-19 pandemic means local Muslims this Ramadan can't invite their interfaith neighbors to large celebratory meals to break their fast each night, but area faith leaders say they've found other ways to build connections with the community. Ramadan, which begins Monday, April 12, is a holy month during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. Community iftars — the meals that break fast — are a way to invite others to learn more about Islam and build bridges through eating together, said Imran Malik, spokesman for NOOR Islamic Cultural Center, a mosque in Hilliard. "The pande...

 month-to-month leases were terminated so the new management can do renovations. “I don’t have any plans,” she said, speaking Somali through an interpreter. “I asked him, 'Can you give me a second chance? Six months  to find a house? I have kids taking online classes, I don’t know where to go.'” Lissa Ellegood, regional property manager at Cincinnati-based Heritage Hill Capital Partners, said what the complex is doing is "no different than when a resident would come into the office and give us a 30-day notice to vacate if they were a 30-day tenant." Despite that, the situatio...