{"id":54439,"date":"2026-08-24T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/?p=54439"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:36:46","slug":"startribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/2026\/08\/24\/startribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: New Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our executive director Prof Najeeba Syeed and President Paul Pribbenow were quoted in the <em>Star Tribune<\/em> newspaper this past week! In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/mn-churches-renewed-interest-ice-surge\/601875977\">article<\/a>, they shared reflections about interfaith solidarity and connections made across the Twin Cities. These relationships have been especially important in the past year, and new connections continue being made, as reported by Minnesota journalist Mara Klecker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Minnesotans turned to faith communities to help during the ICE surge. Some stayed for Sunday worship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><i class=\"fas fa-chevron-circle-right \" ><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/mn-churches-renewed-interest-ice-surge\/601875977\">Read More<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54442 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/08\/startribune-300x155.png\" alt=\"newspaper clipping\" width=\"666\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/08\/startribune-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/08\/startribune-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/08\/startribune.png 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our executive director Prof Najeeba Syeed and President Paul Pribbenow were quoted in the Star Tribune newspaper this past week! &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54444,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54439\/revisions\/54444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}