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.
It took many hands and many hearts to build the Compassion House, which welcomed a family from Afghanistan at the end of November.
Josué Coy Dick, a fourth-year student at Bethel College from North Newton, Kan., is the winner of the 2024 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest.
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.
As deadly violence escalated in Lebanon, Mennonite Central Committee partners worked to provide emergency relief and support for people caught in the conflict.
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.
