by Edward Miller | Apr 10, 2003 | News
AMMAN, Jordan – As Mennonite Central Committee prepares to implement aid programs in Iraq, MCC staff are increasingly concerned about the involvement of the U.S. and British military in providing humanitarian aid. MCC is committed to helping the most vulnerable...
by Robert Rhodes | Feb 20, 2003 | News
Since March 2002, Mennonite Central Committee worker Edward Miller has been living in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, offering the solitary witness of an American Christian to the Iraqi people. The child of MCC workers, Miller, 31, is a graduate of Goshen (Ind.) College....
by Maria Linder-Hess | Feb 13, 2003 | News
NEW YORK – If a war begins in Iraq, unsanitary water may be one of the biggest threats to the civilian population, according to an official with CARE International. Margaret Hassan, the humanitarian agency’s Iraq program officer, said 60 percent of the...
by Robert Rhodes | Oct 10, 2002 | News
HARRISONBURG, Va. – When military recruiters set up their tables at Eastern Mennonite University Oct. 3, several students and faculty were appalled. EMU administrators, however, said they tried to turn the event into an opportunity to present a Christian witness...
by MCC News Service | Jul 19, 2002 | News
EAST JERUSALEM, West Bank – Heightened Israeli military restrictions on the movement of people within the West Bank are impeding humanitarian efforts for Palestinians, according to Mennonite Central Committee and other relief and development agencies. A...