Laurence and Sharon Garnett live in the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq, home to a large Bedouin community, as well as, of late, a host
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.
Mennonite World Conference’s Executive Committee accepted churches from Tananzia and Ukraine as new members and approved funding for theological education during meetings April 8-11 in Curitiba, Brazil.
Nguyen Quang Trung, 84, who led the Vietnam Mennonite Church through the hardships of restriction to official recognition, died March 23.
The government of Suriname has scrapped plans to allow Colony Mennonites from Bolivia and other countries to purchase about 74,000 acres of land. Indigenous politicians and conservation groups criticized the arrangement on climate and transparency grounds.
Mennonite Brethren in India selected new leaders in October, giving hope that long-simmering conflicts can be put in the past.
