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MCC in Iran
In the hostile climate that exists between the United States and Iran, MCC promotes friendship and understanding through a student exchange program and disaster response. As part of an exchange program designed to provide opportunities for dialogue and friendship, a couple from the United States is studying Islam and the Persian language in Qom, Iran, and two Iranian families are studying philosophy of religion through the Toronto Mennonite Theological Center in Canada. Conferences in Toronto and Qom brought together Mennonite Christian and Shiite Muslim scholars to discuss topics such as modernity, revelation and authority. After a devastating earthquake in Bam, Iran, on Dec. 26, 2003, MCC sent some 70,000 blankets to help replenish the emergency supplies of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, the primary responder to disasters in earthquake-prone Iran. MCC also provided funds for powdered milk and temporary showers.
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