Senegal trip gives Germans, Americans new perspectives on African entrepreneurs
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.
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.
