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Myrrl Byler, executive director of Mennonite Partners in China (MPC), has been engaged in the country for over 30 years. MPC has brought over 300 Chinese visiting scholars to U.S. schools, sent over 300 English teachers to China from the U.S. and Canada, and facilitated service abroad opportunities for over 40 young adult Chinese. The MCC UN Office interviewed Byler about how the country has changed over these decades and about building bridges of peace during this time of rising tensions. MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ Read the interview at https://mcccanada.ca/stories/myrrl-byler-why-call-peacemaking-must-not-ignore-china 
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You can provide emergency food to children and families who are starving. In seven months of fighting, around two million people have been displaced from their homes in Tigray and more than 60,000 have fled to neighbouring Sudan. They are truly afraid, hungry and homeless. A donation of $125 provides 4 people with one month of emergency food. MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ https://donation.mcccanada.ca  As we mark a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are deeply concerned by global inequalities on the rise. This includes global access to life-saving vaccinations. Canada has enough purchased vaccines to inoculate our population many times over. This limits the global supply of these vaccines.
MCC invites you to join us in sending a message to the Prime Minister and the Minister of International Development to encourage Canada to engage in the creation and rapid implementation of a redistribution and donation plan of Canada’s purchased and committed vaccine doses to COVAX to ensure a parallel global rollout. You can send a letter to the PM and other government people through this link. https://mcccanada.ca/get-involved/advocacy/takeaction/12 MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ https://mcccanada.ca/get-involved/advocacy/campaigns/vaccine-justice There was no peace in Anju Shaw’s life. For 20 years, she’d endured constant abuse and neglect at the hands of her husband and then her husband’s parents. She had no support, no one to speak for her or listen to her. She didn’t think the police would care about her—if they believed her in the first place. The ideas of peace, safety or stability were as far from her as the sky itself. It was a miracle then, when a woman from a local Saathi women’s group (from the Hindi word, meaning “to journey together”) who knew about her situation told her about Barrackpore Avenue and how they could help her… MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ https://mcccanada.ca/stories/one-piece-time  |
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