Mergers, splits, shifting affiliations have transformed the U.S. Anabaptist landscape
Virginia Mennonite Missions has changed its name to Anabaptist Mission Partners.
When Lovina Zook put her dark green Amish dress back on for the video that catapulted her into online fame, butterflies flooded her stomach.
As wars intensify in Ukraine and the Middle East, Pope Leo XIV joined Israeli and Palestinian children, as well as children from other countries, for an interfaith concert highlighting music’s power to bridge divisions.
The Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference, based in Winnipeg, Man., has appointed a denominational staff person to disciple, teach and encourage youth pastors and youth leaders.
Churches are calling for restraint, humanitarian support and law and order as xenophobic unrest deepens.
A group of Amish parents and schools in New York lost their second bid to secure a religious exemption to state vaccine mandates in June after the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to an appeals court for reconsideration.
Sister Theresa Aletheia and Sister Danielle Lussier are the only community of religious sisters in the Catholic Church fully dedicated to serving abuse victims.
When Laura Schlabach arrived in Mongolia in 1993, there were only about 1,000 Christians in the sparsely populated country tucked between Russia and China. By 2025 that number had blossomed to an estimated 60,000, about 2% of the population.
Doris Kramer, 102, the first woman to serve on the Mennonite Board of Missions, the mission agency of the Mennonite Church, died May 20 in St. Jacobs, Ont.
