Mennonite Church Canada is launching an urgent relief appeal for the Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia. MKC leaders and adherents have lost their lives in the crossfire of a tribal conflict that began in the western region of Ethiopia in 2018.
Eastern Mennonite Missions and the Lancaster, Pa.-based Anabaptist fellowship LMC are inviting contributions to respond to a humanitarian appeal from the Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia.
A demonstration of humility through footwashing in an Ethiopian peacebuilding training inspired one man to persuade more than 600 rebel fighters to turn from their violent ways.
Pastor Tesfay Siyum, a founder of the Meserete Kristos Church in Eritrea and 1990 graduate of MK Seminary who served more than a decade in prison for his faith, was denied burial for two weeks in April because he did not belong to a state-recognized religion.