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USMB delegates approve peace article revision

Delegates at the U.S. Mennonite Brethren national convention in Santa Clara, Calif., voted July 26 to revise the article on “Love, Peacemaking and Reconciliation” in the denomination’s Confession of Faith.

The revision to Article 13 — which passed 103-10 — describes nonparticipation in the military as a choice that “many of us” make.

Mennonite World Review staff

August 18, 2014

Affirming all we send

Mennonite conferences of North America are quite discriminating about which mission organizations represent them in their public gatherings. Almost all of us “own” Mennonite Central

R. Showalter

August 18, 2014

MCC provides bedding in Gaza for 2,000 people

Through one of its longtime partners in Gaza, Mennonite Central Committee provided emergency bedding supplies to about 2,000 displaced people, or 150 households, in Gaza

Ed Nyce | Mennonite Central Committee

August 18, 2014

Entrenched retaliation

Fighting in the Gaza Strip has resulted in more than 1,900 Palestinians and 67 Israelis killed since July 8. Hundreds of the dead Palestinians are

Tim Huber

August 18, 2014

Swiss castle envisioned as Anabaptist museum

Trachselwald Castle in Switzerland, a medieval fortress with an important place in Anabaptist history, is up for sale.

Swiss Mennonites are raising funds to preserve the castle as a museum honoring the memory of Anabaptists who were imprisoned and tortured there as heretics between the 16th and early 18th centuries.

Dale D. Gehman | For Mennonite World Review

August 18, 2014

Philippines typhoon recovery aims for lasting results

Since Typhoon Haiyan devastated communities in the Philippines last November, Mennonite Central Committee has been helping residents such as Virginia Pagatan restore what took only

Laurie Oswald Robinson | For Mennonite Central Committee

August 18, 2014

Goshen students witness hope in Palestine

GOSHEN, Ind. — When Sam Carlson walked to work in the morning, he stepped over hundreds of tear gas canisters, stun grenades and smoke bombs. Sometimes he could feel tear gas lingering in the air.

Carlson, a junior peace, justice and conflict studies major at Goshen College, served at the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center (Wi’am) in Bethlehem this summer.

Kate Yoder | Goshen College

August 18, 2014