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Last updated May 15.

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Articles : Africa

MCC provides aid for Sudanese refugees returning to home

AKRON, Pa — Mennonite Central Committee is providing $800,000 in aid to help resettle refugees returning to southern Sudan after a 21-year civil war.

MCC, MWC respond to needs in Zimbabwe

Mennonites are sending relief supplies and seeking prayer for the people of Zimbabwe amid a government “cleanup” operation that has left hundreds of thousands homeless.
Mission intern weeps with refugee women

ACCRA, Ghana — Human suffering overwhelmed Kate Brubacher on her first visit to Buduburam, a Liberian refugee camp 30 miles from Ghana’s capital.
Muslims hear gospel through drama

SARABA, Burkina Faso — When my husband, Loren, and I moved to this village 20 years ago, we knew telling the story of Jesus as good news to the mostly Muslim population would take a lifetime.

Why isn’t Congo a media story?

Western media generally do not cover the war in Congo. But a media story is developing, paradoxically, on how the conflict is not a media story.

Suffering and joy in center of gravity

Christianity’s center of gravity has shifted to the global South. For Mennonites the pull is strongest in Africa. Recent news from that continent — home to a third of the world’s Mennonites and Brethren in Christ — reminds us of the need to pray for and to act in solidarity with believers there.

Hundreds detained after Eritrea wedding raided

ASMARA, Eritrea — As many as 300 wedding guests were detained May 28 during a government raid on members of an Anabaptist church.
Manual will help Africans minister to those with AIDS

SALUNGA, Pa. — Beth Good first began seeing HIV/AIDS patients when she ran a small clinic in Olepolos, Kenya, from 1998 to 2001.
Worshipful work builds an Anabaptist church

YOPOUGON, Ivory Coast — The construction worker in heels and a lace blouse lifted her skirt to step over a pile of beams.
Zimbabweans wonder if they’ve been forgotten

Two years ago, Zimbabweans eagerly anticipated hosting the Mennonite World Conference assembly. Today, they cling to good memories of that event and the support they felt from their global faith family. They also wonder if that family has now forgotten them.