Mennonite Church USA’s 2026 Bring the Peace award recipients are a pastor who retired to devote time to international peacebuilding and a college student who brings people together to address immigration and conflict issues.
Fort Collins Mennonite Fellowship in Colorado has been without a home for nearly a year after a long conflict with local government to limit its ministries with people experiencing homelessness culminated in the closure of its building Dec. 9 for methamphetamine contamination.
During the winter of 2002-03, many of us Mennonite pacifists were concerned about the probable U.S. invasion of Iraq. It was easy to feel powerless and hard to know how to raise one’s voice.
Not long ago, citizens of the European Union were proud of their status as guarantors of human rights and social peace. Upheavals of the past — when economic rivalry and religious differences forced people, including Mennonites, to flee to the New World — had become nothing more than historical events.
The Project for Refugee People in Ecuador ended its work April 30 after decades of supporting refugees fleeing violence in neighboring Colombia.