A delegation from six U.S. and Canadian Mennonite universities visited Iran from Oct. 4 to 10 to explore opportunities for academic collaboration with Iranian universities.
MCC’s Iran program has two primary goals: to promote understanding and friendship between the people of Iran, Canada and the United States; and to promote peace between the governments of the countries.
Members of a recent MCC learning tour to Iran took peace lamps as gifts, spreading a message of peace between the people of Iran and the people of the United States and Canada.
Refugee families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo return home and begin farming with tools provided by MCC through its partner, Church of Christ of Congo.
MCC encourages Obama administration to fully utilize the diplomatic and economic elements of U.S foreign policy, rather than military might, to disarm rebels in central Africa.