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Venezuelan migrants received with care and compassion After fleeing two thousand kilometres from their home in Venezuela to escape political and economic turmoil, Carmen Sanchez and her family found themselves…

MCC’s 40 years of refugee resettlement in Canada More than 12,500 refugees have been resettled in Canada by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) since negotiating an agreement with the government on…

Strengthened by a continuing supply of emergency food, 700 families who have been displaced by violence in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) are…

Daniel* doesn’t have just one reason for leaving his 8-year-old daughter and parents in Honduras. He has many reasons for joining a caravan of thousands of migrants walking toward the…

As the waters recede, the extent of the devastation emerges. People forced from their homes and land by torrential rains in August in India’s Kerala State are returning home. In…

People often say young people are the future. MCC is working with partners in Canada, the U.S. and around the world to invest in opportunities for young people to serve.…

MCC responds to the Rohingya refugee crisis Nur Jemon remembers that the day she fled her home in the Rakhine district of Myanmar started as it did every other day.…

I was born in Santander in north-central Colombia. My husband and I married when he was 17 and I was 15, and we decided to come to Bogotá to look…

“Fill me with your love oh Lord,” I say to myself as I breathe in. “And free me from fear,” I think on the exhale. “Fill me with your love…

Churches in Syria, like Rev. Nseir’s, have been strong partners for MCC in helping provide relief during the conflict. They reach out to their communities and provide support to those in need, both Christians and Muslims. “During the crisis people forgot their religion and remembered one thing, we are all human beings,” Rev. Nseir says.

Walk into Hagar Association, a school in Be’er Sheba, Israel, and it looks like almost any other school. But if you listen closely, you’ll hear children speaking both Hebrew and…

Worldwide there are 23 million refugees and 1.2 million in need of resettlement outside of their home country or region. Last year MCC helped groups resettle 442 people through the…

Worldwide there are more than 65 million displaced people—nearly double the population of Canada. The United Nations says this number is unprecedented and the need for humanitarian assistance is only…

David Chow recalls sitting in Sunday school as a child and learning about what the nation of Israel meant for Christians in a traditional Christian Missionary Alliance congregation in Calgary,…

Imagine the pain of losing a child to war, compounded by not having a safe space to express grief. This is Claudia Antonovna Ushakova’s story. Her son, a soldier in…