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The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples. The evangelical effort was a major part of, and a justification for, the military conquests of European powers such as Portugal , Spain , and France .
Antiochian Orthodox church in Canada; Christian communities make up a significant proportion of the Middle Eastern diaspora.. Millions of people descend from Arab Christians and live in the Arab diaspora, outside the Middle East, they mainly reside in the Americas, but there are many people of Arab Christian descent in Europe, Africa and Oceania.
The Sunday magazine of the New York World appealed to Immigrants with this 1906 cover page celebrating their arrival at Ellis Island. The 1910s marked the high point of Italian immigration to the United States. Over two million Italians immigrated in those years, with a total of 5.3 million between 1880 and 1920.
In The Return from Egypt by James Tissot, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph voluntarily leave Egypt to go to Nazareth after King Herod's death.. Voluntary return or voluntary repatriation is the return of an migrant such as illegal immigrants, rejected asylum seekers, refugees, unaccompanied minors, as well as second-generation immigrants [1] who with their own free-will make an autonomous decision to ...
After World War I, some states concerned about the influence of immigrants and "foreign" values looked to public schools for help. The states drafted laws designed to use schools to promote a common American culture. In 1922, the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oregon sponsored a bill to require all school-age children to attend public schools.
Some 54% of immigrants in the U.S. illegally had lived in the country for more than 10 years as of 2022, according to the report by Center for Migration Studies of New York. About 25 percent had ...
The following animated videos depict the experiences of nine Muslim Americans from across the country who differ in heritage, age, gender and occupation. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, these Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
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