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AMBS Pastors Week focuses on biblical vision

ELKHART, Ind. — The Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary “Fab Five” took on snow and frigid temperatures to help participants to see Jesus at Pastors Week

Mary E. Klassen | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

February 17, 2014

Canadian scholar studies how education preserves Old Colony Mennonite culture

It’s hard to understand Canada’s Old Colony Mennonites without first understanding their views on education. In 1922 about 8,000 Old Colony Mennonites left Canada for Mexico

Kelli Yoder

February 17, 2014

Quebec MBs encouraged to discuss ‘charter of values’

WINNIPEG, Man. — Quebec’s proposed charter of values continues to generate an emotional debate about the place of religion in a secular society. A graphic provided

Gladys Terichow

February 11, 2014

Book, documentary tell of Amish shunning

When Saloma Miller Furlong left the Amish for good, one of the ways her shunning manifested and evolved was around the dinner table during return

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

January 20, 2014

Lithuanians join global MB family

The Free Christian Churches of Lithuania, a conference of seven church plants, will be welcomed into the International Community of Mennonite Brethren in May. The official

Gladys Terichow

January 20, 2014

Land returned after 16 years of nonviolent protest in Argentina

A victory for the indigenous Moqoit of Argentina has ended a 16-year legal dispute for the rights of their ancestral land. Luis Acosta, who served with

Sara Alvarez Waugh | Mennonite Mission Network

January 20, 2014

Incoming EMU student dies in pedestrian accident

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Doyeon Ki, a 21-year-old woman from South Korea set to enroll in Eastern Mennonite University’s Intensive English Program, was killed in an

Eastern Mennonite University

January 20, 2014

Some Manitoba Old Order children return to their homes

A half dozen children from two families returned home in early November to a Manitoba Old Order Mennonite community after about 40 children were removed

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

January 20, 2014

Christian Peacemaker Teams growing in Europe

Christian Peacemaker Teams in Europe is responding to a refugee crisis — a bold new step for CPT there. Work has started on an initial exploratory

Marius van Hoogstraten | Christian Peacemaker Teams

January 20, 2014

After fatal shooting, a holy night

Prairie Street Mennonite Church in Elkhart, Ind., hosted a candlelight vigil with a somber but optimistic tone following its Christmas Eve service after a teenager was fatally shot in a church parking lot the day before.

Devonte J. Patrick, 18, was found with a gunshot wound after Elkhart police received a report of a shooting around 2:45 p.m. Dec. 23. The Elkhart Truth reported he was taken to Elkhart General Hospital…

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

January 9, 2014