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
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.
