In the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the earth holds minerals the world craves, the people who live off food grown in the rich, dark soil and raise families amid the lush, green hillsides are perpetually in danger.
Mennonite Church USA’s 2026 Bring the Peace award recipients are a pastor who retired to devote time to international peacebuilding and a college student who brings people together to address immigration and conflict issues.
During the winter of 2002-03, many of us Mennonite pacifists were concerned about the probable U.S. invasion of Iraq. It was easy to feel powerless and hard to know how to raise one’s voice.
Mennonite Church USA is celebrating its peace witness by honoring Weldon Nisly and Fernando Daza-Jabian as its 2026 Bring the Peace award recipients.
The pope linked war, environmental destruction and inequality to the same crisis of the human heart, calling for a spiritual and ecological transformation.
This year my spouse and I practiced war tax resistance and redirection for the first time. We made this choice in large part due to the support from our congregation, First Mennonite Church of San Francisco.
A Russian airstrike July 4 destroyed a century-old school built by Mennonites in Ukraine, punctuating the scope of suffering and loss of life since Russia escalated the conflict in 2022.
“Waging Peace: A Militarism Summit” Nov. 6-7 at Forest Hills Mennonite Church in Leola, Pa., will bring together Christians to explore faithful responses to war, political polarization, nationalism and violence.
During his June 10 homily before over 4,000 people, and surrounded by the nature-inspired architecture of Antoni Gaudí, often referred to as “God’s architect,” the pope made a forceful appeal against war and in defense of human life.