Conferencegoers in Netherlands send 1,060 relief kits, 785 comforters to war’s victims
The Project for Refugee People in Ecuador ended its work April 30 after decades of supporting refugees fleeing violence in neighboring Colombia.
The residents of Tehran woke on March 8 to thick, black smoke engulfing their city after the Israeli military bombed fuel depots. The immediate human and environmental impacts of the war were disturbingly evident, but what about the broader climate impact?
Rachel Fisher, a junior at Lancaster Mennonite School in Pennsylvania, won the grand prize for her essay on climate and peace in Mennonite Central Committee U.S. National Peace & Justice Ministries’ annual public policy essay contest.
Nearly two dozen peace workers from 10 countries gathered for collaboration and encouragement March 26-29 at the European Peacebuilders’ Roundtable hosted at the Paris Mennonite Center in France.
Conversations between Mennonite Central Committee’s U.S. and Canadian boards and two former service workers resulted in further harm, according to the consultants who facilitated the 14-month process.
A Partner of Mennonite Central Committee provided 34,000 meals over 30 days in Lebanon as more than 1 million people were displaced by Israeli military attacks.
Mennonite Central Committee partner Al-Najd Developmental Forum bought and distributed 1,500 packages of children’s winter clothing to families in Gaza City.
From 1962 to 1991, Mennonite-related organizations operated residential schools for Indigenous people in northwestern Ontario. On March 6-8, 30 survivors from those schools gathered in Dryden, Ont., to tell their stories and begin their healing journeys.
