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This is a photo of Filipino children playing "revolution", using wooden rifles, in a country experiencing civil war. The political crisis, the people and the church of the Philippines are topics of "Spirit in Struggle: A Reader and Study Guide on the Philippines", released by Mennonite Central Committee.

This is a photo of men, women and a few children talking with members of a church-based Fact Finding Mission. The meeting is taking place outside in a rock-strewn area among buildings in Napaliran, a town on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. These people have left their countryside homes in the province of Misamis Oriental because of fighting between the rebel New people's Army and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

This is a photo of a sculpture in Juba, southern Sudan, built after the 1955 to 1972 war between north and south. The sculpture shows an Arab Muslim northerner shaking hands with a Christian African southerner and is a reminder of hope for reconciliation and peace in the current civil war.

This is a photo of patients waiting outside a clinic for medical care in a refugee camp min Um Sagata, Sudan. The primary health care program in which four MCC health workers are involved focuses on maternal and child health care.

This is a photo of two Hmong women sitting on short stools on the edge of a hard-packed alley, doing embroidery, in the Ban Nam Yao refugee camp in northeast Thailand. Traditional Hmong designs such as the snail (protection), heart (good health) and elephant's foot (wealth) are crafted into saleable items such as potholders and aprons for sale in North America.

This is a photo of Hilda Sinbkomba, Zambian Home Economics officer for Mkushi District standing beside a soybean nutrition booth promoting the use and production of soybeans among villagers at the Chicupili Agricultural Fair. She is working with MCCer Dave Wynne.

This is a photo of women from Inyati Community Co-op filling their water containers at the spigot while MCC worker William Stoesz from Steinbach, MB looks on. Stoesz worked with the community on behalf of the Zimbabwean Christian Care service agency which assisted on this water development project. The women now have water within walking distance of their homes.

This is a photo of (left to right): MCC Executive Secretary John Lapp, MCC Chairman Elmer Neufeld and Samuel Escobar of Peru, professor of missiology at Eastern Baptist Seminary in St. Davids, Pa. Escobar was speaking at the Mennonite Central Committee annual meeting in Denver, Colo.

This is a photo of (left to right): Paul Myers, MCC South Asia secretary, recognizing Rosella Toews, who has served for 36 years in Asia, the last 11 in a joint appointment by MCC and the Mennonite Brethren Board of Missions and Services.

This is a photo of two women and four men in a row, working the soil, possibly planting, with short-handled hoes. Agriculture and food production are strong themes of a new MCC film, "Africa Voices".

This is a photo of a crowd of people gathered for the inauguration of a food-for-work road building project in Bangladesh. The Bengalis building the road will receive as payment wheat donated to Mennonite Central Committee by Canadian farmers and shipped to Bangladesh by the Canadian Food Grains Bank.

This is a photo of (left to right): a Bengali farmer, the proud owner of a new rower pump, and Tim Meyer, MCC worker.