I was inspired by Andrea De Avila’s excellent post last week, entitled Five things Friday roundup: The Mennonite list. Her list related to supporting survivors
I am writing about this now because it would be easy to judge those who cry out for the Epstein list to be revealed. I think it has become such a political issue that we stop thinking of what is really at the core: Who are the people targeting and harming our children? It isn’t just a conspiracy theory; these issues are real and they happen in our families and in our churches, even our good pious Mennonite ones.
Mennonite Central Committee Canada has been awarded a grant of $4.7 million ($3.25 million U.S.) for humanitarian aid in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It’s not only American university professors, scientists, researchers, doctors and nurses who are contemplating moving to Canada because of the political situation in the United States. Clergy are, too.
Mennonite Central Committee has reached a six-figure legal settlement with a couple who allege their employment as service workers in Burkina Faso was terminated without sufficient cause while they were on sick leave. The couple had raised concerns about workplace abuse.
A group alleging abuses spanning decades at Mennonite Central Committee launched a formal organization Sept. 5 to hold the relief, peace and development organization to account as the group announced the number of former workers with stories of abuse has doubled.
A former assistant theater director at Bethany Christian Schools in Goshen, Ind., was arrested April 30 on five felony counts of child seduction.
