Editor's note: Raylene Hinz-Penner visited and volunteered with Annunciation House in 2018. She reflected on her experience in Mennonite World Review. Catholics are rallying around
For five months, the world’s focus on Gaza has been intense. But North American Anabaptists have been building relationships with people in Gaza through a twinning initiative for over four years.
Mennonite Church USA has awarded Mennonite Action an unrestricted $10,000 grant from its Church Peace Tax Fund.
“If you’ve never been there, why do you care?” Anna Johnson asked on our way from South Bend to Goshen, Ind., in a 12-passenger van to pick up the rest of our carpool heading to Washington, D.C., on a subzero January morning.
More than 130 activists from Anabaptist congregations across the United States were arrested Jan. 16 in Washington, D.C., as they sang songs of peace and called on Congress to support a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and the release of all hostages in the war with Israel.
