Religiously unaffiliated make up 29% of U.S. population
Tran Thi Phuoc Ly, translator of Peacemaker Ministries materials used by Vietnam Mennonite Church and other groups, died from a COVID-19 infection Sept. 3 in Ho Chi Minh City. She was 81.
A series of deadly storms and tornadoes tore through six Midwestern states Dec. 10-11, killing at least 88 people, with the most severe devastation in Kentucky, where entire towns were leveled.
Elio Milazzo, longtime producer and voice of Parole di Vita (Words of Life), an Italian radio broadcast sponsored by Italian Mennonites in partnership with groups such as Virginia Mennonite Missions, died Aug. 29.
Bruxy Cavey, pastor of an Anabaptist megachurch that is one of Canada’s largest churches, has been accused of sexual misconduct and placed on leave while the church undertakes an external investigation.
Two former residents of a Mennonite work farm for troubled youths in Pennsylvania have filed a lawsuit against the facility and its sponsoring church conference, alleging abuse and forced labor.
The pandemic has pushed 130 million people into extreme poverty and food insecurity. Mennonite Economic Development Associates’ annual convention highlighted how this has set back global poverty-reduction efforts by years and increased gender-based violence, prompting MEDA to focus on a mix of attending to small details and planning for long-term impacts.
Mennonite Hospital Km 81 in Paraguay is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a project to fund a new shoe shop.
“There is a lot of fear in the air.” That’s the way one Mennonite Brethren pastor in British Columbia described the reaction to a letter sent by the provincial MB conference asking pastors and other church leaders to recommit themselves to the denomination’s Confession of Faith.
Face-to-face with the person who sold him out to the authorities, Zebron Mwale could have said any number of venomous things. Instead, he seized the opportunity to seek reconciliation.
