Eastern Mennonite Missions and the Lancaster, Pa.-based Anabaptist fellowship LMC are inviting contributions to respond to a humanitarian appeal from the Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia.
Eastern Mennonite Missions and the Lancaster, Pa.-based Anabaptist fellowship LMC are inviting contributions to respond to a humanitarian appeal from the Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia.
A demonstration of humility through footwashing in an Ethiopian peacebuilding training inspired one man to persuade more than 600 rebel fighters to turn from their violent ways.
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.
A chance airport encounter allowed Simon Okoth to bring the cultural mixing of Mennonite World Conference to Mennonite congregations in Uganda.
Anabaptist members in Malawi and Mozambique were impacted significantly by Cyclone Freddy, an exceptionally long-lived tropical storm that battered Southeast Africa for more than five weeks in February and March with heavy rains and high winds.
The Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria, or EYN), celebrated its centennial March 17.
About 3,000 people from six congregations in Cafunfo, Angola, were among Anabaptists around the globe who celebrated Mennonite World Conference’s World Fellowship Sunday on Jan. 22.
The Brethren in Christ Church and Mennonite Brethren Church in Malawi are working to treat and prevent a cholera outbreak, according to a Mennonite World Conference prayer request.
