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
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.
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.
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 . . .
MCC also is calling on U.S. lawmakers to oppose military intervention in Iraq and instead to send humanitarian aid for the U.N.-estimated 1.9 million internally displaced people, or IDPs, in the country.
She was returning from a regional staff retreat in Spain on May 29 when Israeli authorities detained her at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport.
According to an MCC Washington Office report, Friesen was detained for more than 30 hours, which included three sessions of interrogation. She was returned to Barcelona, where she was met by MCC colleagues before making her way back to Canada.
