Articles : Gabe Schlabach
July 6, 2009 issue
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MCC works to curb gun violence
WASHINGTON — Pastor Aldo Siahaan sent a text message from a Philadelphia hospital apologizing that he could not join fellow members of the Mennonite Central Committee East Coast board at a meeting.
May 25, 2009 issue
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Random acts of gun violence
A few weeks ago, as I waited for a bus in Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown, five teenagers — three girls and two boys — clashed over a tacky, pink and silver backpack.
May 26, 2008 issue
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Human face of immigration
Isabel left El Salvador in 1988 during a bloody civil war. As she made her way to the United States, one of her coyotes — people smugglers — forced her to have sex with him as payment (she was 17). That night she would have preferred death in the civil war to the humiliation she endured.
Dec. 3, 2007 issue
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Turn youth away from crime
Mennonites have a long history of finding creative ways to resolve conflict through personal and community action rather than through the courts.
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