Christian Aid Ministries has not said whether ransom was paid
Two former residents of a Mennonite work farm for troubled youths in Pennsylvania have filed a lawsuit against the facility and its sponsoring church conference, alleging abuse and forced labor.
The pandemic has pushed 130 million people into extreme poverty and food insecurity. Mennonite Economic Development Associates’ annual convention highlighted how this has set back global poverty-reduction efforts by years and increased gender-based violence, prompting MEDA to focus on a mix of attending to small details and planning for long-term impacts.
Mennonite Hospital Km 81 in Paraguay is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a project to fund a new shoe shop.
“There is a lot of fear in the air.” That’s the way one Mennonite Brethren pastor in British Columbia described the reaction to a letter sent by the provincial MB conference asking pastors and other church leaders to recommit themselves to the denomination’s Confession of Faith.
Face-to-face with the person who sold him out to the authorities, Zebron Mwale could have said any number of venomous things. Instead, he seized the opportunity to seek reconciliation.
Mennonite Church USA’s Mennonite Education Agency has appointed Shana Peachey Boshart as faith formation minister, effective Nov. 1.
A “climate emergency choir” of Mennonites and their friends called for urgent action on the climate crisis in song Oct. 18 at the governor’s mansion and other political offices in Richmond, Va.
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, based in Lancaster, Pa., has rebranded as Mennonite Life.
Two of the 17 Christian Aid Ministries workers and family members kidnapped more than a month ago in Haiti were released on Sunday, Nov. 21.
