In 2015, when a resolution called “Seeking Peace in Israel and Palestine” was proposed at the Mennonite Church USA convention, many of my Latino and Latina brothers and sisters went to the microphone to express their support for Israel. I was not surprised.
The events of Oct. 7 — the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — still dominate Israeli consciousness.
Representatives of Mennonite World Conference have began dialogues with representatives of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, beginning a process of reconciling differences between two movements that began in the 1500s in Zurich, Switzerland.