Couple’s service in Texas leads Illinois churches to host asylum seekers
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.
Mennonite Mission Network apologized in August for initially failing to investigate a 2018 allegation of sexual harassment against an employee, according to documents made public Nov. 26 by Mennonite Abuse Prevention, a survivor advocacy group.
Frieda Schellenberg Erb, 81, whose lifetime of ministry in Bolivia and Argentina included building connections between churches in North and South America, died Nov. 14 in Choele Choel, Argentina.
