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MCC aid gives Syrians reason to stay

Mennonite Central Committee is appealing for more funds to help meet basic human needs of Syrians who want to stay near their homes as large

Linda Espenshade, Meghan Mast | Mennonite Central Committee

September 21, 2015

With grants, MCC assists displaced in Iraq, Syria

It’s been a year since Qasim left his home in Sinjar, Iraq. He was fleeing an advance by the Islamic State — the same advance that left tens of thousands of other Yazidis stranded in the mountains, trapped between hunger and dehydration and the threat of mass violence.

Qasim and his parents and three brothers, along with their wives and children, were able to get away from Sinjar, to a . . .

Emily Loewen | Mennonite Central Committee

September 14, 2015

7 years old, three wars

Mostafa is 7 years old and lives in Gaza. Last summer a missile from an F16 came through a window and damaged his home. Mostafa

Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach

September 14, 2015

Lasting ties in western Europe

ENKENBACH, Germany — At the age of 85, Artur Regier vividly remembers the night he fled his family’s West Prussian farm. It was 1945, and

Emily Loewen | Mennonite Central Committee

August 31, 2015

MCC worker returns to Germany 60 years after service

Anne Buller of Bluffton, Ohio, returned this summer to her old neighborhood in Germany to celebrate a ministry she started 66 years ago but only recently learned was still operating.

Buller and her late husband, Harold, traveled to Berlin in 1948 with Mennonite Central Committee. The newlyweds established a neighborhood community center before moving on to other MCC work in Europe. For one reason or another, they never followed up . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

August 24, 2015

Global MCC program aids underserved in N. America

SASKATOON, Sask. — A group of kids wiggle their way through the doors of Floating Gardens Ltd. and spill into the entry. They take off their shoes and slip into rubber ones designated safe for the greenhouse.

This is the last day of the first year of Bread for Success, an afterschool project supported through Mennonite Central Committee’s Global Family education program.

Meghan Mast | Mennonite Central Committee

August 17, 2015

Colombians wait, hope

It is hard for many of us to imagine what it would be like to be born and raised in a place of perpetual conflict.

Charissa Zehr

August 3, 2015

Need to divest

The Mennonite Church USA convention’s decision to table the Israel divestment resolution is both surprising and disappointing. I have long realized some Mennonites are caught

Letters

August 3, 2015

A gift of peace from the persecuted

Mennonite World Conference's Global Youth Summit 2015 discussed gifts and calling July 17-19. One participant shared his church’s story of giving gifts of peace in

Elina Ciptadi-Perkins

July 24, 2015

At MWC assembly, MCC cans vegetables for first time

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee’s mobile meat canner went vegan for the Mennonite World Conference assembly, switching for one week from pork, beef and

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 23, 2015