(22 Aug 2025)
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 10 August 2025
1. Streets of “Czech Village”
2. Mass letting out at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church
3. Bob Kazimour singing a Christmas holiday song in Czech
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 9 August 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“We’re built up as Cedar Rapids by Czech and Slovak immigrants.”
5. St. Jude Catholic Church’s Sweet Corn Festival
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 10 August 2025
6. Congregants singing at Spanish Mass at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 9 August 2025
7. Mugisha Gloire teaching a driver’s ed class through his nonprofit at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 9 August 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“So we have a very long history of immigration to Cedar Rapids.”
9. The Catherine McAuley Center
10. Various of students in a U.S. citizenship class held at The Catherine McAuley Center
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“For the most part, 99% of our students are immigrants and refugees. So we teach English as another language and I always say another because it’s four or five languages most people know. We teach citizenship, digital literacy, conversation classes.”
12. Various of students in a U.S. citizenship class held at The Catherine McAuley Center
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“Seven years ago, we started resettling people from directly from refugee camps in other countries. We started small I think with the first year with 25 to 50 and we just grew from there.”
14. Man in citizenship class
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“Specifically we resettled a lot of people from Democratic Republic of Congo and then when the Afghans came, we resettled 250 Afghans within about three months.”
16. Various of Mugisha Gloire teaching a driver’s ed class through his nonprofit at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“It is a matter of meshing or integrating. How do we, how do we get around in the community? How do find our friends? How do you find, find bridges across cultural divides?”
18. Various of students learning English through Mugisha Gloire’s nonprofit
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“There’s definitely been the concern from our students and from the people that we’ve resettled. ‘What does my future look like? How does this, how do I live in such uncertainty?’”
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 10 August 2025
20. The Rev. Daniel Niyonzima, a refugee from Burundi, leading Sunday service at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
21. Congregants singing during service
22. Wide of service held in Kirundi, one of Burundi’s languages, at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 9 August 2025
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“Citywide though, I don’t, I don’t meet a lot of people who are opposed to immigrants coming to the United States and coming to our city. That isn’t, it just isn’t part of, I don’t think it’s part of our makeup here in Cedar Rapids.”
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 10 August 2025
24. Congregants at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
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