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.
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.
As Sandra Shenk volunteered at the Mennonite Relief Center in Hinton, Va., during its annual chicken canning project in late February, she recalled the verses that were part of her Sunday school class earlier that week.
Thulani Conrad Lewis Moore, 71, a longtime antiracism educator and organizer who played key roles in the Damascus Road and Roots of Justice training programs, died Feb. 17. He lived in Tucker, Ga., with his wife and young daughter.
As U.S. military activity increases around the world, Mennonite Central Committee invites teenagers and young adults to examine their beliefs about participation in war and record their convictions on a Christian Peacemaker Registration Form.
