Closing after 57 years, congregation gives its building to serve community’s children
A U.S. Postal Service worker who took his fight against working on the Sabbath to the U.S. Supreme Court is an evangelical Christian, but not a Mennonite, as several media reports have indicated.
Pastor Tesfay Siyum, a founder of the Meserete Kristos Church in Eritrea and 1990 graduate of MK Seminary who served more than a decade in prison for his faith, was denied burial for two weeks in April because he did not belong to a state-recognized religion.
The Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, Pa., welcomed the Lenape (Delaware) tribe of Bartlesville, Okla., on April 12. After a potluck supper with local Mennonites, Chief Brad KillsCrow, tribal elder John Thomas, and tribal historic preservation officer Susan Bachor presented their request: land to bury their ancestors.
Hesston College outlined areas in which it needs to improve its response to reports of sexual and gender-based harassment and violence following the April 14 release of a report by an external team of investigators.
Kids’ community theater is a place where children grow in faith and friendship through musical theater.
The University of Hamburg department of peace church theology has awarded the Menno Simons Sermon Prize to Joachim Leberecht, pastor of Evangelical Lydia Church in Herzogenrath, Germany.
About 130 Anabaptists from nine conferences in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela gathered to explore themes of reconciliation Feb. 18-21 in Quito, Ecuador.
The Church of the Brethren is planning a “time of silent personal reflection and confession” at its July 4-8 Annual Conference in Cincinnati based on a recommendation adopted last year to hold a service of confession and repentance regarding relationships with one another and exclusion of LGBTQ people.
