It’s just coffee and flowers…
Thomas Coldwell is currently volunteering with MCC Ottawa and interning as Associate Pastor with the Village International Mennonite Church. In fall, he will join MCC Alberta as Peace and Community Engagement ...
Weekly Roundup, July 17
Colombian Church by Anna Vogt
Faith in Action in the Rio Grande Valley
Neither of their options, whether they’re sent to a detention center, run as a federal prison, or released with a GPS-monitoring ankle b...
Peace is not achieved by saying “We want peace,” but by working for it
Amy Eanes lives and works in Istmina, Choco as part of the MCC Seed program. This blog was first posted on the Seed Blog.
Peace building in the context of the armed conflict, government neglect, and poverty...
The Butterflies of Buenaventura (Part 4): No Peace Without Women
Photo by Natalio Pino
Photo by Natalio Pino
David Sulewski, together with his wife Tibrine da Fonesca, works with MCC in Quito, Ecuador, coordinating the Refugee Project, a ministry of the Mennonite ...
Weekly Round-Up, June 26
Putumayo River, Colombia. AnnaVogt
Mexico takes lead to stem migrant wave, deports more Central Americans than the United States
Between October and April, Mexico apprehended 92,889 Central Americans. In the s...
Press Release: UN Panel Says Peacekeeper Immunity Cannot Equal Impunity- Yet Report Fails to Address Haiti Cholera
Nepalese troops arrive to provide security for a food distribution at a police station. Port Au Prince, Haiti. Photo by Ben Depp.1/20/2010.
UN Panel Says Peacekeeper Immunity Cannot Equal Impunity
Repor...
The Butterflies of Buenaventura (Part 3): A Rising Tide of Tremendous Troublemakers
David Sulewski, together with his wife Tibrine da Fonesca, works with MCC in Quito, Ecuador, coordinating the Refugee Project, a ministry of the Mennonite Church in Quito to refugees, the majority of whom are f...
Weekly Round-up: June 19, Special Focus on Haiti
The Dominican Republic (D.R.) is poised to begin the controversial deportation of hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrant workers and, potentially, Dominicans of Haitian descent who have been stripped of their...
In Times of War and in Times of ‘Peace’: The Role of the U.S. Embassy in the Current Political Turmoil of Guatemala
Guatemala streets. Photo: Anna Vogt
By Tobias Roberts, MCC Guatemala. This article was originally published by the Huffington Post on June 1, 2015.
The United States government is no stranger to meddling i...
The Butterflies of Buenaventura (Part 2): Our project in life is to be happy
David Sulewski, together with his wife Tibrine da Fonesca, works with MCC in Quito, Ecuador, coordinating the Refugee Project, a ministry of the Mennonite Church in Quito to refugees, the ...