From the “Universe”: “Mormons March for Muslims joins Utah March for refugees”

From the “Universe”: “Mormons March for Muslims joins Utah March for refugees”

 

Quincy, on the river
In the late 1830s, the people of the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, welcomed, fed, and sheltered Mormon refugees fleeing from persecution and the governor’s infamous “extermination order” in Missouri.  (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)

 

An article from BYU’s student newspaper:

 

http://universe.byu.edu/2017/02/04/mormons-march-for-muslims-joins-utah-march-for-refugees/

 

I think that some of my students were there.  I certainly hope so.

 

If our schedule had not already been full with inescapable obligations, my wife and I would happily have participated.

 

 


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