Sixty-one Mennonites from the mid-Atlantic region were arrested Sept. 9 outside Virginia Sen. Mark Warner’s congressional office in Washington, D.C., for their peaceful refusal to stop singing.
Sixty-one Mennonites from the mid-Atlantic region were arrested Sept. 9 outside Virginia Sen. Mark Warner’s congressional office in Washington, D.C., for their peaceful refusal to stop singing.
Doug Penner, Bethel College president from 1995 to 2002, died Aug. 29 after an extended illness. He was 77.
Mennonite Mission Network has appointed Juan Pacheco Lozano of Goshen, Ind., as regional director for Latin America. He succeeds Linda Shelly, who served since 2002.
Mennonite Central Committee U.S. executive director Ann Graber Hershberger has announced her planned retirement in July.
An Old Order Amish mother in Ohio was charged with aggravated murder after throwing her 4-year-old son into a lake as an offering to God. Her husband drowned earlier that morning when investigators believe he swam a lengthy distance in an attempt to prove his faith.
