Over 800 people from 250 congregations across Canada and the U.S. met online Nov. 28 to talk about ways to respond together to the war in Gaza and Palestine.
The Center for Community Justice in Elkhart, Ind, honored Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, Mennonite Church USA denominational minister for Peace and Justice, for her work in restorative justice at an Oct. 21 event celebrating the 45th anniversary of its Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program, the first restorative justice program of its kind in the U.S.
I am a child of Egyptian immigrants who survived the wars between Israel and Egypt. When I consider the current conflict in Israel-Palestine, I feel solidarity with the Palestinians. We share a language, a landscape, a culture.
Mennonite World Conference churches celebrated Peace Sunday Sept. 17 with diverse activities around the world.