Charity News from Saturday, Jun. 24, 2000On Independence Day, Nutritionists Cast a Cold Eye on Eating Habits of Colonial AmericaAmerican Institute for Cancer Research | Don't look to America's past for advice on healthy eating, say nutrition experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR). The Institute says that most colonial diets revolved around fat, meat, salt and alcohol. Mennonite Disaster Services releases new book The Hammer Rings Hope Mennonite Central Committee | AKRON, Pa. -- Fifty years of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) photos and stories are presented in the new hardback The Hammer Rings Hope by Lowell Detweiler, former MDS Executive Coordinator. The Hammer Rings Hope was released on June 2 at the ... Thrift stores get net saavy Mennonite Central Committee | LITITZ, Pa. -- Looking for new ways to market valuable items, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) thrift shops are getting on the information superhighway. Thrift shop managers and board members from Canada and the United States gathered in June ... Puerto Rican Mennonites look to needs of Vieques citizens as Navy resumes bombing Mennonite Central Committee | SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The United States Navy plans to resume bombing practice soon on Vieques Island off the coast of Puerto Rico. RamĒn Bermudez, president of the Puerto Rican Mennonite Church, said the church hopes to respond to the needs of... MCC Bolivia is Forty Mennonite Central Committee | SANTA CRUZ, Boliva -- More than 500 visitors attended the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Bolivia 40th anniversary celebration here June 16. The event, held at the MCC center in Santa Cruz, included expositions and presentations of current MCC ... Years after massacre Las Abejas still strives for peace in Chiapas Mennonite Central Committee | CUERNAVACA, Mexico -- To an emotional audience, Sebastian, a Presbyterian member of Las Abejas, opened a tour here and Mexico City, in central Mexico. Sponsored by Mennonite churches in Mexico City and Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), four ... Sustained MCC partnership facilitates grass-roots development work in India Mennonite Central Committee | Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) responded to the need by working with an Indian relief organization that grew out of the crisis -- the Christian Agency for Relief and Social Action, which in 1970 was renamed the Church's Auxiliary for Social ... Indonesian church leaders train for conciliation Mennonite Central Committee | WEST PAPUA, Indonesia -- The church in this eastern-most province of Indonesia is under great stress these days as it faces violence outside and conflict within. "Disagreements within the society about independence are mirrored by disagreements ... Christians and Muslims face tension in Indonesia Mennonite Central Committee | Those words from John 16 (NIV) sound very different when read to an Indonesian congregation," said Duane Ruth-Heffelbower, director of peace programs, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Indonesia. During the past two years, violence between ... Ethiopia troubled by war, famine and now peace Mennonite Central Committee | MCC is partnering with the Ethiopian Mennonite Church (MKC), the Lutheran Church and Afar pastoralists to distribute food to people affected by the drought and to those displaced by the Ethiopia-Eritrea war. Linda and Bob Hovde, MCC and Eastern ...
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