Facing foreclosure by Everence, a Nigerian Mennonite immigrant congregation in Inglewood, Calif., has asked Mennonite Church USA to help halt the sale of its building.
It is the 31st plate known to exist of the original 104 etched by Dutch artist Jan Luyken.
Radical Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls in mid-April from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, that was built by Brethren mission workers in the 1940s. Many of the girls are part of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, or EYN).
