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Middle East

Beheadings by religious fundamentalists are not new

My wife's ancestor Hans Landis, one of the last known Anabaptists martyrs in western Europe, was executed in the year 1614, just 400 years ago.

Harvey Yoder

October 14, 2014

Speaking for Gaza

Two of three recent articles on Israel lack Gaza’s viewpoint. I must speak for them. Thousands are permanently disabled by Israeli shells. Palestinians lack Israel’s

Rachel Stella

September 29, 2014

Acting like a state: ISIS, the U.S. and Jesus as Lord

Like most Americans, I’m horrified by each new story I read about ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham). A friend who works in the

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

September 22, 2014

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

Ashley Dickens

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
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