The University of Hamburg department of peace church theology has awarded the Menno Simons Sermon Prize to Joachim Leberecht, pastor of Evangelical Lydia Church in Herzogenrath, Germany.
The University of Hamburg department of peace church theology has awarded the Menno Simons Sermon Prize to Joachim Leberecht, pastor of Evangelical Lydia Church in Herzogenrath, Germany.
About 130 Anabaptists from nine conferences in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela gathered to explore themes of reconciliation Feb. 18-21 in Quito, Ecuador.
A chance airport encounter allowed Simon Okoth to bring the cultural mixing of Mennonite World Conference to Mennonite congregations in Uganda.
Mennonite World Conference issued a call to prayer to its member churches around the world the day after a military bombardment killed members of Bible Missionary Church, an MWC member church.
Anabaptist members in Malawi and Mozambique were impacted significantly by Cyclone Freddy, an exceptionally long-lived tropical storm that battered Southeast Africa for more than five weeks in February and March with heavy rains and high winds.
The Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria, or EYN), celebrated its centennial March 17.
About 3,000 people from six congregations in Cafunfo, Angola, were among Anabaptists around the globe who celebrated Mennonite World Conference’s World Fellowship Sunday on Jan. 22.
