Xenia Hiebert is representing Paraguay at the 2024 Summer Olympics, taking place July 26-Aug. 11 in Paris.
Xenia Hiebert is representing Paraguay at the 2024 Summer Olympics, taking place July 26-Aug. 11 in Paris.
William (Bill) Janzen, former director of Mennonite Central Committee Canada’s Ottawa Office, is being appointed to the Order of Canada in July in recognition of his contributions to government policy, refugee resettlement, citizenship, development aid and peacebuilding.
The International Community of Mennonite Brethren welcomed three new conferences at its biennial summit June 4-9 in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Tanzanian Mennonites’ gift to Anabaptists around the world is their ability to retain youth in the church, said Leah Makoyo, a former Tanzanian church leader, during a visit to Pennsylvania.
Riki Neufeld, a pastor at Schänzli Evangelical Mennonite Church in Muttenz, Switzerland, is this year’s recipient of the Menno Simons Sermon Prize.
Mennonite Central Committee and its partners in Burundi are working together to respond to immense needs after torrential rainfall and a series of floods and landslides displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
The Mennonite Brethren conference in Colombia has called on the global Anabaptist family to support them in prayer after the La Samaritana MB congregation in La Toma gave shelter in May to about 300 people fleeing violence between illegal groups and the army.
The Movement of Anabaptist Women Doing Theology from Latin America, or MTAL, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a workshop in El Salvador on April 14-16.
