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A #BringBackOurGirls confession

I am going to trust you with the truth. I wish we could sit down, you and I, with two cups of coffee and a

September 19, 2014

Islamist terrorism horrifies Muslims

With all the terrible actions of Islamist extremists in Iraq, Afghanistan and Nigeria, there’s a lot of concern and worry about Islam-inspired terrorism today —

John Longhurst

September 15, 2014

Palestine peace seeker shares goal

LOMBARD, Ill. — A Bethlehem peacemaker recently challenged Lombard Mennonite Church and guests to pursue people-to-people strategies for building peace. Zoughbi Zoughbi, director of Wi’am

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center

September 15, 2014

CPT aids refugees seeking safety in Iraqi Kurdistan

Christian Peacemaker Teams reports the brutal violence of militant Islamic State forces in Iraq has not changed CPT’s goals of partnering to transform violence and oppression, but it has affected how they go about it.

CPT has maintained a presence in northern Iraq’s semiautonomous region of Kurdistan for several years, but recent actions by IS — formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — have triggered a cascade . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

September 1, 2014

Jim Foley, IS and what I learned from being kidnapped

We sat on mats in a traditional sitting room in a remote village of northwestern Iraq. One of our captors guarded the door with his

Peggy Gish

August 29, 2014

MCC provides bedding in Gaza for 2,000 people

Through one of its longtime partners in Gaza, Mennonite Central Committee provided emergency bedding supplies to about 2,000 displaced people, or 150 households, in Gaza

Ed Nyce | Mennonite Central Committee

August 18, 2014

Entrenched retaliation

Fighting in the Gaza Strip has resulted in more than 1,900 Palestinians and 67 Israelis killed since July 8. Hundreds of the dead Palestinians are

Tim Huber

August 18, 2014

Goshen students witness hope in Palestine

GOSHEN, Ind. — When Sam Carlson walked to work in the morning, he stepped over hundreds of tear gas canisters, stun grenades and smoke bombs. Sometimes he could feel tear gas lingering in the air.

Carlson, a junior peace, justice and conflict studies major at Goshen College, served at the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center (Wi’am) in Bethlehem this summer.

Kate Yoder | Goshen College

August 18, 2014

Network seeks to mobilize Israel-Palestine peacemaking

Mennonites have been building relationships in Israel-Palestine longer than many other Christian denominations but lack the churchwide efforts to work for peace in the Middle

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

August 12, 2014

Iraqi genocide: Our violence got us here

My spirit has been grieved in a way I haven’t experienced before as the situation in Iraq and Syria has turned for the worse as

Benjamin L. Corey

August 11, 2014