Articles : Kathleen Kern/Christian Peacemaker Teams
April 1 issue
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Idle No More
Since October, the Idle No More movement has been sweeping across the First Nations in Canada. Started in response to a parliamentary bill that eroded indigenous treaty rights, the movement has brought to light many issues Canada had long left unaddressed: violence against indigenous women, deliberate weakening of the principles of collective land ownership, and resource exploitation on indigenous lands, among others. The movement has supporters all over the world.
Nov. 26, 2012 issue
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A precious right, but to what end?
A retired couple who pastored a large Presbyterian church in Rochester, N.Y., began to attend our small Mennonite fellowship a few years ago, because we were in their neighborhood. We have been greatly enriched by their involvement.
July 23, 2012 issue
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Politics befitting a Christian?
After reading about Mennonite pastor Arnoldo Wiens’ run for the presidency of Paraguay last spring — and the Paraguayan Senate’s “coupish” replacement of its democratically elected president at the end of June — I imagined our Anabaptist forebears who wrote the Schleitheim Confession in 1527 paying Mennonites a visit in 2012.
Jan. 9, 2012 issue
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On the invention of nations
Talking with Palestinians in December, I was surprised they were taking the news so personally that the Republican front-runner at the time, Newt Gingrich, had said Palestinians were an “invented people.”
Dec. 12, 2011 issue
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New bargain with a dictator
Uzbekistan blipped on the radar for U.S. citizens in October when Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told an interviewer on the Christian Broadcasting Network it was an “insignificant” nation.
Nov. 21, 2011 issue
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This army isn’t the Lord’s
When I want a better understanding of a geopolitical situation with which I am unfamiliar, I first check what human rights organizations with a history of accurate documentation are reporting about it.
Oct. 10, 2011 issue
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What about the Palestinians?
President Obama had nice things to say about people struggling violently and nonviolently for liberation in his Sept. 21 speech before the United Nations General Assembly, including the citizens of South Sudan, Ivory Coast, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain.
Sept. 12, 2011 issue
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Where sacred meets profane
In 2008, I found myself becoming increasingly interested in some Japanese anime (animated cartoon) series, to the point that I was spinning stories in my head featuring the series’ characters.
Aug. 8, 2011 issue
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Abuses in Honduras
In 2009 I wrote about the coup in Honduras that deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya and about the human rights abuses that followed. At the end of May, Zelaya returned to Honduras. Between 500,000 to 1.5 million Hondurans in red T-shirts came to the Tegucigalpa airport to welcome him.
June 13, 2011 issue
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Bombs in the marketplace
HEBRON, West Bank — We heard the first explosion shortly after dinner. After the second explosion, a local shopowner called us, saying a man had been injured by a sound bomb.
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