The coordinator of the World Council of Churches’ Jerusalem Liaison Office is the 2025 recipient of the Menno Simons Sermon Award.
The coordinator of the World Council of Churches’ Jerusalem Liaison Office is the 2025 recipient of the Menno Simons Sermon Award.
The German Mennonite Peace Committee is honoring an Israeli-Palestinian renewable energy humanitarian organization with the 2025 Michael Sattler Peace Prize.
As deadly violence escalated in Lebanon, Mennonite Central Committee partners worked to provide emergency relief and support for people caught in the conflict.
Two mothers of six children each are living through the Israeli military’s assault in Gaza, which began last October. Both women’s houses were destroyed multiple times by previous Israeli attacks since Israel set up an air, sea and land blockade of Gaza in 2007. Here, in their own words, they describe the past year in Gaza.
Why would Shia Muslims and Mennonite Christians strike up a friendship? Part of the answer might lie in their affinity as minorities within their faith traditions. Another possibility is the connection both communities draw between suffering and faith.
In 2015, when a resolution called “Seeking Peace in Israel and Palestine” was proposed at the Mennonite Church USA convention, many of my Latino and Latina brothers and sisters went to the microphone to express their support for Israel. I was not surprised.
The events of Oct. 7 — the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — still dominate Israeli consciousness.
