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Middle East

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

MCC responds to violence in Gaza

During the second week of the Israel-Hamas conflict in mid-July, a Mennonite Central Committee partner began assisting families in Gaza.

Longtime partner Al Najd Development Forum distributed locally purchased food to 230 families on behalf of MCC.

Some recipients of MCC’s one-month, $25,000 food distribution have been displaced by the violence.

Mennonite Central Committee

August 4, 2014

Care for elders crosses national, faith boundaries

Palm Village, a Mennonite Brethren retirement community in Reedley, Calif., is mentoring Lebanon’s first assisted-living center.

It’s a mutually beneficial relationship, said David Reimer, director of Palm Village.

His relationship with the center has given him a glimpse of rare Christian peacemaking seen through indiscriminate caretaking in . . .

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

July 21, 2014

A house divided

The Iraq war’s false promises keep adding up. President Obama’s 2011 assertion that “we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq” is proving as

Paul Schrag

July 7, 2014
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