Leaders of the Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso expressed their opposition to a war tax and were relieved to find out the payment was not required.
Leaders of the Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso expressed their opposition to a war tax and were relieved to find out the payment was not required.
Elton DaSilva, national director for the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, will leave that role in October and become global director of the International Community of Mennonite Brethren.
One of the most widely used sources of information about Mennonites and other Anabaptists continues to grow in quantity of articles and in global diversity of contributors.
One hundred years ago, the first of 21,000 Mennonites who left the Soviet Union boarded a train in Quebec City for new lives across Canada. Some of their descendants and others will replicate that journey as part of “Memories of Migration: Russlaender (Russian Mennonites) Tour 100.”
Mennonite youth at a peace conference in Myanmar pledged not to get involved in armed revolution.
Pastor Victor Dogos of N’djamena, Chad, is the first recipient of the Michael J. Sharp Global Peacemaker Award. The award was created by Mennonite Central Committee this year to acknowledge courageous peacemakers.
The Mennonite Church USA Executive Board is expanding its Peace & Justice ministries to include Mennonite Creation Care Network.