A U.S. Postal Service worker who took his fight against working on the Sabbath to the U.S. Supreme Court is an evangelical Christian, but not a Mennonite, as several media reports have indicated.
Pastor Tesfay Siyum, a founder of the Meserete Kristos Church in Eritrea and 1990 graduate of MK Seminary who served more than a decade in prison for his faith, was denied burial for two weeks in April because he did not belong to a state-recognized religion.
The Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, Pa., welcomed the Lenape (Delaware) tribe of Bartlesville, Okla., on April 12. After a potluck supper with local Mennonites, Chief Brad KillsCrow, tribal elder John Thomas, and tribal historic preservation officer Susan Bachor presented their request: land to bury their ancestors.