peacebuilding

MCC boards approve five-year strategic plan. Caring for creation in the context of climate change is one of four priorities.

As the stalemated war in eastern Ukraine enters its sixth year, life goes on as normal in this city about 150 miles from the front. People here would rather not…

Soul Force: Seven Pivots toward Courage, Community, and Change Reesheda Graham-Washington and Shawn Casselberry Herald Press Reviewed by Jacqueline Block What is the subject? Soul Force encourages us to live…

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.…

Inter-Mennonite relief in DRC Ten-yea-old Kanku Ngalamulume fled from his home in the village of Senge after armed groups beheaded his mother and father and his siblings too. He was…

MCC partners in Colombia are walking with people affected by more than 50 years of violence, months after a peace accord was signed between the government and the country’s largest…

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine When armed men arrived at a Light of the Gospel church in the Donetsk region of Ukraine they searched the basement for weapons. There were no weapons; instead…

Four months after Michael J. Sharp moved to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012, he joined a small delegation that for six hours climbed a mountain in South Kivu Province to meet a leader of a major armed group.

Reconciliation is not achieved with the signing of an agreement, the celebration of an event or the release of a documentary film. But all are “steps on the journey,” says…

On August 24, 2016, hundreds gathered in the city centre of Bogotá to celebrate an historic peace accord between the Colombian government and FARC guerilla group.

WINNIPEG In a region of ongoing conflict and tension, supporting peace and promoting dialogue between religious communities continues to be a fundamental mission for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). A $500,000…

When Mugu Zakka Bako arrived at the scene of twin bomb blasts on May 20, 2014, at a busy market in the city of Jos, Nigeria, he saw more than the destruction and injured people. He saw Muslims and Christians working shoulder to shoulder, helping to rescue people from the debris.