With songs and signs, demonstrators at more than a dozen Target stores across the United States protested the chain’s accommodation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in February.
With songs and signs, demonstrators at more than a dozen Target stores across the United States protested the chain’s accommodation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in February.
Mennonite Church USA’s annual Hope for the Future gathering focused on discernment and strategic visioning Jan. 30-Feb. 1 at Iglesia Cristiana Roca de Refugio (Rock of Refuge Christian Church) in San Antonio, Texas.
Members of the second Mennonite church to be officially registered in Tanzania, Kanisa la Mennonite la Kiinjili Tanzania (KMKT, Evangelical Tanzania Mennonite Church) celebrated its 20th anniversary Dec. 1-7 in Musoma.
A military junta air strike killed leaders of a Mennonite church Feb. 10 in a village of civilians in Myanmar.
Multnomah University was facing the end of its days. “We have cried, prayed, and walked a difficult path together as a community,” the Christian school’s president, Jessica Taylor, said in a 2023 video. “Without God’s provision, there was no path forward.”
Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship will host its annual conference March 13-15 at Eastern Mennonite University with the theme “Solidarity, Community and Resistance in this Political Moment.”
Low enrollment and an ongoing budget deficit have prompted Freeman Academy in South Dakota to close at the end of this school year.
When Szmara founded Immigrant Connection, a church-based network of legal clinics that assist immigrants, in 2014, some churches wanted to get involved, others said it was a good idea, and there was little resistance, he said. Now, he said, critics treat his work as anathema and ask him if he’s lost his faith.
After it was converted into a paramilitary base, its pews chopped into firewood by soldiers and its compound turned into a graveyard, All Saints Cathedral in Khartoum, the war-ravaged Sudanese capital, is rising again.
