PAZ in contexts of violence
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, location of the MCC Retreat January 2012
Adriana Koehn is the Connecting Peoples Program Coordinator in MCC Guatemala. This article was posted on January 24 on their program website ...
Guatemala: How can the cycles of violence be broken?
“It was like having to chose between cancer and AIDS.”
This is the phrase I heard frequently during a recent trip when talking with Guatemalans about the impossible choice that voters had in the elections in N...
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...
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...
Peacemaking: Contemplation and Action?
The author of this post is Jacqueline Block who is currently living in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico with her family on a MCC assignment. You can read more about her on their blog site.
At ou...
A Shared Song: Argentinian Folk-Singer Facundo Cabral Killed Yesterday
Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter, aged 74, was killed in Guatemala City early Saturday morning, July 9, by gunmen. He was on his way to the airport after giving several concerts. It is still unclea...
Voices from the Americas: A Mennonite Pastor in Ciudad Juarez
“How can we be a church of peace and hope in a context of overwhelming violence?” asks Pastor Carlos Martinez, in an interview in April, 2011. Martinez is the pastor of the Iglesia Evangelica Misionera Nuevo Pa...
Mexico: Peasant Massacres and Peace Marches
May 17, 2011
Peasant Massacres and Peace Marches: ...