Mennonite Economic Development Associates announced on Dec. 1 in Accra, Ghana, that it will lead Mastercard Foundation’s $200 million Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund.
The Meserete Kristos Church called on all armed groups to refrain from killing people because it is a sin and a crime, in a Nov. 21 statement “regarding the breach of peace in different areas of Ethiopia.”
A severe water shortage could not stop the baptism of 120 people in August by Meserete Kristos Church pastors in southern Ethiopia.
A sculpture gifted to the United Nations by the United States and Sweden in memory of UN investigators Michael J. Sharp and Zaida Catalán was unveiled Aug. 3 in the Disarmament section of the UN’s permanent art collection in New York City.