Rachel Fisher, a junior at Lancaster Mennonite School in Pennsylvania, won the grand prize for her essay on climate and peace in Mennonite Central Committee U.S. National Peace & Justice Ministries’ annual public policy essay contest.
Eastern Mennonite University and Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community announced a strategic partnership on May 11 that includes EMU selling to VMRC a 13-acre forest situated between the neighboring institutions.
The executive committees of Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada agreed not to pursue a new Confession of Faith in the foreseeable future during a joint meeting May 22-24.
A Congolese Army colonel and about 30 other people were found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of United Nations investigators Michael J. Sharp and Zaida Catalán on June 5 in an appeal trial in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
More than 600 Mennonites from Europe and beyond gathered May 14-17 in Amersfoort, Netherlands, to fellowship in God’s promise articulated in Luke 24’s story of meeting a stranger on the road to Emmaus during CMERK, a regional gathering for European Mennonites.
Heavy Rains following drought in southern Africa had disastrous impacts on Anabaptist churches in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.