During the early 1980s, as Christians in Ethiopia faced severe persecution, the Meserete Kristos Church survived by shifting the primary focus of congregational life to
Mennonite World Conference has four commissions that serve the global community of Anabaptist-related churches: deacons, faith and life, peace, mission. Commissions prepare materials for consideration
John D. Roth is professor of history at Goshen (Indiana) College and director of the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism. This article originally
Photo: Colombians march in memory of victims of armed conflict. Photo by Anna Vogt. Wednesday, August 24, was an historic day in Colombia: the national government
According—appropriately enough—to the book of Numbers, on the first day of the second month of the second year after the exodus from Egypt, God commanded
By all accounts, the 16th Mennonite World Conference Assembly that took place July 21-26 in Harrisburg, Pa., was a resounding success. Memories of worshiping with
In September 1936, Orie Miller and Harold Bender, two rising leaders in the (Old) Mennonite Church, published an enthusiastic report in the Gospel Herald about
On Jan. 27, 1907, an unusual article appeared in the Portland Oregonian. Under the headline “Frenzied by Religion: Strange Proceedings at a Recent Mennonite Revival
On Dec. 6, 1942, Ogwada Okach and Nikanor Dhaje, two Kenyan teenagers enrolled in the Mennonite mission school in Shirati, Tanzania, began preaching in the
On March 16, 2013, Jhonatan David Vargas Becerra was detained by military officials and forcibly conscripted into the 28th Battalion of the Colombian National Army
