The Project for Refugee People in Ecuador ended its work April 30 after decades of supporting refugees fleeing violence in neighboring Colombia.
Shannon W. Dycus has been named president of Eastern Mennonite University. Dycus has led the university as interim president since July 2025, and begins her five-year term on July 1.
Theatre of the Beat recently concluded a cross-Canada tour of a new play, inspired by Mennonite ministries in Toronto, about exploitive conditions in global retail systems.
A former pastor of Toronto Chinese Mennonite Church has been charged with sexual assaults of minors.
The violence has resulted in at least 12 deaths, widespread destruction of foreign-owned businesses and homes and thousands of migrants fleeing South Africa or seeking shelter in community centers, mosques, churches and police stations.
Dock Mennonite Academy in Lansdale, Pa., won the Pennsylvania Class 1A baseball state championship June 12 at Penn State University’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park in State College.
From May 11 to 15, Dr. Carlos Wiens and Carla Wiens visited and gave healthcare lectures to the Mennonite colonies of Valle Verde, Nuevo México, Valle Hermoso and Nueva Esperanza, located between San José de Chiquitos and Quimome, in Bolivia.
Rachel Fisher, a junior at Lancaster Mennonite School in Pennsylvania, won the grand prize for her essay on climate and peace in Mennonite Central Committee U.S. National Peace & Justice Ministries’ annual public policy essay contest.
Eastern Mennonite University and Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community announced a strategic partnership on May 11 that includes EMU selling to VMRC a 13-acre forest situated between the neighboring institutions.