War and risk tested my faith, but God never let us down
A Colombian Mennonite woman who empowers young people to choose peace in the midst of violence is the winner of the 2024 Michael J. Sharp Global Peacemaker Award.
Two mothers of six children each are living through the Israeli military’s assault in Gaza, which began last October. Both women’s houses were destroyed multiple times by previous Israeli attacks since Israel set up an air, sea and land blockade of Gaza in 2007. Here, in their own words, they describe the past year in Gaza.
A Mennonite Central Committee representative in Central Africa mediated a regional peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year.
Arab Christians can no longer be silent about their co-religionists’ solidarity with what is at best an act of revenge and at worst a genocide.
Every day, when Mr. Khong awakens in Myanmar, he has two challenges: 1) avoid being captured, conscripted or killed by the military junta struggling to hold onto power; and 2) get food to people who have fled to remote mountainous areas to avoid the junta.
