Love your Enemies in Six Movements
This is a devotional that Marion Meyer shared at a gathering of MCC Connecting Peoples Coordinators in Honduras, September, 2011. Marion and her husband, Ricardo Torres, are the Country Representatives for MC...
Conflict of Reasonability – A Guatemalan Indigenous Community vs. an Italian Energy Corporation
Tobias Roberts, MCC service worker in Guatemala, describes the contrasting worldviews that have led to the breakdown in negotiations between a Mayan community and an Italian corporation building a dam, and expl...
Caravan of Central American Mothers search for missing Migrants in Mexico
The Casa de los Amigos, the Quaker house in Mexico City, is an MCC partner, and they recently hosted a very moving visit of Central American mothers searching for their children who have disappeared in Mexico w...
Mexican Day of the Dead: Cause of Death?
Wednesday, November 2nd was “Day of the Dead” here in Mexico.
This national holiday is a unique combination of Pre-Hispanic and Catholic traditions in which families remember deceased family members. Linked wi...
Peace: A Gift to be Received
Jacqueline Block, MCC Service Worker in Chiapas Mexico, continues her reflections on a compilation of Henri Nouwen’s writings entitled: The Road to Peace.
Are we for peace? Are we at peace? These are good ques...
“Vivir Bien” – The Bolivian concept of “Abundant Life”
By Lynn Longenecker.
Lynn, his wife Laurie, and children, Maria, Nathan and Jesse, recently completed a three-year assignment in Bolivia. In this post, Lynn reflects on an indigenous concept that provides a cr...
Responding When We Disagree: A Case from Haiti
Alexis Eckert was the MCC Advocacy Coordinator in Haiti from 2008 to July, 2011, and now works for Other Worlds, Haiti. In this blog she explores how the way we communicate is as important as the content we ...
Community Evolution – Not Community Development
Bruce, Ziko, Jaime, Hizee, and Zam Friesen-Pankratz, Photo by Luke Roth-Mullet
Bruce Friesen-Pankratz writes about his experience as an MCC service-worker in Zacango, Mexico, utilizing a biological metaphor t...
Prime Minister Harper and I mark the new Canada-Colombia Free-Trade Agreement
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and I were recently in Colombia. We visited youth programs in a marginalized urban neighbourhood, met with business leaders, and talked with Colombians about the new Canad...
Voices from the Americas: A Friend to Migrant Women caught in the Sex Trade
Gloria, a vivacious young woman in a tight top and short skirt, tells Maria and me that she would love to go for a day-trip to San Cristobal with us, but her “man” will not let her go. She laughs: “ He’s thinks...