Mennonite organizations have joined new legal effort in a longstanding campaign to prevent copper mining at a sacred Indigenous site in Arizona.
First, there was A Time to Listen, an online gathering for Canadian Mennonite Brethren church members started in 2021 that aimed to create a safe online space to hear the stories of LGBTQ members and their families.
A featured quilt at the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale in Ontario raised more than $20,000 for Mennonite Central Committee in late May and will make its home at Conrad Grebel University College.
The Mennonite Brethren conference in Colombia has called on the global Anabaptist family to support them in prayer after the La Samaritana MB congregation in La Toma gave shelter in May to about 300 people fleeing violence between illegal groups and the army.
The Movement of Anabaptist Women Doing Theology from Latin America, or MTAL, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a workshop in El Salvador on April 14-16.
Eduardo “Lalo” Hinojosa, 81, a pastor influential in the growth of Mennonite congregations in Brownsville and the South Texas border region, died June 3 in Houston.
Mennonite World Conference’s Executive Committee accepted churches from Tananzia and Ukraine as new members and approved funding for theological education during meetings April 8-11 in Curitiba, Brazil.