For many people who follow the political developments between the United States and North Korea, the disappointment after the Hanoi summit was palpable. Rumors had
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — On my first visit to Ramon St. Hilaire’s workshop, in a narrow alley in Port-au-Prince, I remember it smelled of fragrant, fresh-cut wood. Sawdust sparkled in the tropical air. Outside, stacks of wood from the obeche tree cured in the sun, waiting to be shaped into elegant bowls. During this visit, St. Hilaire showed me a newly sanded platter. I took it and turned it over in my hands, feeling something familiar in the smoothness of its form.
More than 12,500 refugees have been resettled in Canada by Mennonite Central Committee since it negotiated a historic agreement with the government on March 5, 1979. The agreement established the framework for private agencies to sponsor more than 327,000 refugees for resettlement to Canada in the past 40 years.
NYANGUNGU, Burundi — Gaudence Nzotungandushe’s family faced many challenges before a local school started its health project.
BOISE, Idaho — Though it’s in a remote part of southern Colombia, Puerto Asis Church of God doesn’t go unnoticed. “There are only two pairs of eyes that watch over us here in Puerto Asis: God and Hyde Park Mennonite Fellowship,” says Angel Pinto, pastor of the congregation near the border with Ecuador on the Putumayo River.
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Until a retired Mennonite pastor came along, Kanza tribal records indicated it had never happened before. No landowner had ever given something back to the Kanza people, also known as the Kaw Nation, after the U.S. government repeatedly broke and renegotiated treaties.
