DownloadSept. 1 issue
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Photo by Tim Shenk/MCC
MCC launches three-year response to Myanmar cyclone
YANGON, Myanmar — Mennonite Central Committee plans to provide more than $1.1 million in aid over three years to help people recover from Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, the southeast Asian nation also known as Burma.
Cyclone Nargis, which made landfall on May 2, was the worst natural disaster in Myanmar’s history. The storm drove a tidal surge into the Ayeyarwady delta, a densely populated agricultural region, killing more than 84,000 people and causing widespread destruction to villages and farms.
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Iraqi refugee family recalls horrors of war in Baghdad
AMMAN, Jordan — Meeron Chamoun is only 8 years old, but he courageously shares vivid memories of children being kidnapped from his school in Baghdad and school closures resulting from bombings and threats of bomb attacks.
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MWC Executive Committee meetings focus on building communion
MANILA, Philippines — Mennonite World Conference Executive Committee meetings July 31-Aug. 5 focused on building global communion, the 2009 assembly in Paraguay, strengthening relations with Asian and African church bodies and hearing reports from the worldwide church.
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Mennonites in Colombia take risks for peace
MANILA, Philippines — The Mennonite Church of Colombia is prepared to take risks to work for peace in the conflicted country.
Aug. 18 issue
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Stitching the world together
CONSTANTINE, Mich. — The Florence Church of the Brethren-Mennonite congregation is stitching the world together, one quilt at a time.
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Goshen ASL prof interprets for Obama
GOSHEN, Ind. — When Sen. Barack Obama came to Concord High School in Elkhart for a presidential campaign town hall meeting Aug. 6, thousands of people wanted to hear his every word.
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With new attitudes, Middle East peace is possible
American Christians need changed attitudes about the Holy Land. After visiting with Israeli and Palestinian people and groups from Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities working for nonviolence, I am confident a Middle East peace is possible, if only the people living there are allowed to work toward reconciliation.
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Ugandan speaks for abducted children
AKRON, Pa. — Angelina Atyam speaks from experience when describing the human toll of the long-running conflict in northern Uganda: her daughter, Charlotte, was abducted at the age of 14 and held captive for nearly eight years by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army.
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Photos tell story of Old Colony in Texas
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Laura Camden has been fascinated by Amish and Mennonites from a young age. Her journalistic curiosity led her into a particular kind of Mennonite world.
