Elina Penner’s debut novel, Nachtbeeren (Nightberries), provides insight into the post-Cold War Russian Mennonite community in Germany.
Elina Penner’s debut novel, Nachtbeeren (Nightberries), provides insight into the post-Cold War Russian Mennonite community in Germany.
Hans von Niessen, a resettlement supervisor who organized the migration of more than 100,000 Mennonite Russian Germans out of the Soviet Union, died Oct. 20 in Neuwied, Germany. He was 94.
Mennonites and Catholics gathered Nov. 8 to remember early Anabaptist leader Michael Sattler in the German church where he served as a Benedictine monk.
Mennonite leaders from across Europe shared reports about their conferences and responses to the war in Ukraine on Oct. 13-15 during the annual European Leadership Mennonite Conference in Barcelona, Spain.
On the 32nd anniversary of Ukraine’s independence in August, Johann Matthies found a charred children’s bicycle in the rubble of a burned-out house in Kyiv. The symbolism was poignant and painful yet inspired pride and hope.
For Conrad Stoesz, archivist at the Mennonite Heritage Archives in Winnipeg, Man., getting requests for information about Mennonites is a regular occurrence. But a request from Moscow was unusual.
When Montbéliard Prairie Church expanded its building in 2017, it gained a space to reach out to the community outside of Sundays.
