The U.S. Department of State is offering rewards of up to $5 million for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of four people in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the war crime of murder in the 2017 killing of Mennonite United Nations worker Michael Sharp and his UN colleague Zaida Maria Catalán.
I was sweating in bed, as one does on a June night in Chad, when I began to hear rumbling noises. My first thought was thunder, but it didn’t follow the typical thunder-and-lightning pattern.
A Mennonite Central Committee representative in Central Africa mediated a regional peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year.
A new Meserete Kristos Church peacebuilding project empowered children to put an end to violent conflict among their elders earlier this year.