More than 12,500 refugees have been resettled in Canada by Mennonite Central Committee since it negotiated a historic agreement with the government on March 5, 1979. The agreement established the framework for private agencies to sponsor more than 327,000 refugees for resettlement to Canada in the past 40 years.
A Denver area congregation’s efforts to be intercultural go far beyond being merely multicultural.
Many Low German-speaking Mennonites have had little access to the outside world, but times are changing, and a new network wants to capitalize while it can.
NYANGUNGU, Burundi — Gaudence Nzotungandushe’s family faced many challenges before a local school started its health project.
HESSTON, Kan. — Mennonite Church USA is considering changes to its Membership Guidelines. Policy and practice no longer match, leaving people dissatisfied on issues of sexuality and inclusion.
BOISE, Idaho — Though it’s in a remote part of southern Colombia, Puerto Asis Church of God doesn’t go unnoticed. “There are only two pairs of eyes that watch over us here in Puerto Asis: God and Hyde Park Mennonite Fellowship,” says Angel Pinto, pastor of the congregation near the border with Ecuador on the Putumayo River.
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Until a retired Mennonite pastor came along, Kanza tribal records indicated it had never happened before. No landowner had ever given something back to the Kanza people, also known as the Kaw Nation, after the U.S. government repeatedly broke and renegotiated treaties.
More Mennonites worship in Africa than on any other continent. In this epicenter of Anabaptist witness, Mennonites in Nigeria and Burkina Faso celebrated anniversaries last fall.
When Joel S. Billi became president of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria in 2016, the Boko Haram insurgency was beginning to wane. People were returning home to face their losses, including staff displaced from the church headquarters and pastors and congregations who had fled their communities.
A new film dramatizing the life of Reformation leader Ulrich Zwingli is giving moviegoers a chance to see early Swiss Anabaptist leaders on the big screen — as long as they can get to Switzerland.
Mennonite Church West Africa advanced its mission to establish Anabaptist churches in three nations on the Atlantic coast when it celebrated the ordination of its first credentialed leaders.
