While Anabaptist theological education is offered around the world, it is largely absent from French-language theological programs. Le Centre de Formation à la Justice et à la Paix (CFJP, Justice and Peace Training Center) is changing that.
While Anabaptist theological education is offered around the world, it is largely absent from French-language theological programs. Le Centre de Formation à la Justice et à la Paix (CFJP, Justice and Peace Training Center) is changing that.
At the end of the first evening of “From Chaos to Shalom: Exploring Peace Theology Together,” emcees Andios Santoso and Joe Sawatzky struggled to wrap up the Zoom session. The concluding prayer had been spoken. But none of the nearly 100 attendees wanted to sign off quite yet.
Mennonite Mission Network has launched Stir Up Peace, a nine-episode educational video series on how nonviolent direct action can create change.
In the artisans’ courtyard at the Royal Palace of Abomey, Benin, where the king of Abomey still holds court, I admired the work of local artists — bronze figurines of roaring lions, appliqued maps of Africa, a weaver’s shuttle dancing back and forth.
About 50 people were sentenced to death Jan. 29 in the Democratic Republic of Congo in connection to the 2017 murders of United Nations investigators Michael J. Sharp and Zaida Catalán.
Robert Witmer, 93, a mission worker for 28 years in France who helped plant a church in Paris and create opportunities for people with disabilities, died Dec. 2 in Cambridge, Ont.
