MWR : Articles : Feb. 26, 2007

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Articles : Feb. 26, 2007

Iraqi refugees need U.S. aid

The plight of millions of displaced Iraqis ought to be a major concern of the U.S. occupiers. But a recent decision by the United States to allow only 7,000 Iraqi refugees into the country belies the grave outlook for those who have either lost their homes to the fighting or been forced to flee them. The advocacy group Refugees International has termed the Iraq migration “the fastest-growing humanitarian crisis in the world,” a fact the United States appears unwilling to acknowledge.

Church takes healing to heart

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Healing is a spiritual concept that one Mennonite Church USA congregation has taken to heart and put into the hands of its members.
Visits prepare students to be witnesses

ROSEDALE, Ohio — Students in Rosedale Bible College’s world religions class don’t have to travel overseas to watch Muslims at prayer in a mosque or to visit with Tibetan Buddhists.
Support eases living with mental illness

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Schizophrenia has been a life-altering but not life-ending condition for Jaime Campbell.

Book celebrates a 60-year ministry

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — For more than 60 years, John Driver’s ministry has involved teaching about God from the periphery. For one day, during the 13th Anabaptist-Mennonite Congress of the Southern Cone, Driver was central.
First lady praises MEDA anti-malaria program

WASHINGTON — First lady Laura Bush praised an anti-malaria program sponsored by a Mennonite development agency during a conference at the White House Feb. 15.
Amish featured in film on forgiveness

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — A documentary on forgiveness that focuses in part on the Oct. 2 shootings in an Amish schoolhouse will be screened at Elizabethtown College next month.
Tabor president to retire Dec. 31

HILLSBORO, Kan. — Tabor College will enter 2008, its centennial year, under the leadership of a new president.
EMU warms up with MCC ‘Kitz Blitz’

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Members of the Eastern Mennonite University community assembled health kits for Mennonite Central Committee during a “Kitz Blitz” as part of EMU’s Mission and Service Days Feb. 15-16.
Dutch mission worker, AMBS professor dies

ELKHART, Ind. – Roelf S. Kuitse Sr., Dutch Mennonite mission worker, professor and pastor who taught at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, died Jan. 24 in the Netherlands. He was 82.