Mennonite World Conference churches celebrated Peace Sunday Sept. 17 with diverse activities around the world.
Mennonite World Conference churches celebrated Peace Sunday Sept. 17 with diverse activities around the world.
After an initial three-month, emergency food distribution in response to Cyclone Freddy’s widespread destruction in Malawi, Mennonite Central Committee has committed to providing food assistance for an additional eight months.
The Canadian Government has allocated $15 million (Canadian) to support Mennonite Central Committee’s work in climate change adaptation, with a focus on empowering women and girls in Zimbabwe.
Several families from a Mennonite colony in Campeche, Mexico, arrived in Angola earlier this year to begin a new settlement in the African nation.
An Ethiopian preschool for disadvantaged children ended up teaching a message of peace to parents that saved a life.
Low German Mennonites from across Latin America continue to seek out opportunities to acquire land for new settlements around the world. Die Mennonitische Post reported a group of six people traveled from Paraguay to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo May 12-22.
Leaders of the Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso expressed their opposition to a war tax and were relieved to find out the payment was not required.
Pastor Victor Dogos of N’djamena, Chad, is the first recipient of the Michael J. Sharp Global Peacemaker Award. The award was created by Mennonite Central Committee this year to acknowledge courageous peacemakers.
