In the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the earth holds minerals the world craves, the people who live off food grown in the rich, dark soil and raise families amid the lush, green hillsides are perpetually in danger.
In the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the earth holds minerals the world craves, the people who live off food grown in the rich, dark soil and raise families amid the lush, green hillsides are perpetually in danger.
Mennonite Church USA’s 2026 Bring the Peace award recipients are a pastor who retired to devote time to international peacebuilding and a college student who brings people together to address immigration and conflict issues.
Peace Talks, an inaugural speech contest hosted by Goshen College, will invite students representing at least five Mennonite/Anabaptist colleges to compete on the same stage for the first time.
Wiyata Wacana Christian Religious College, in collaboration with the Mennonite Central Committee, held a peace curriculum development discussion on the slopes of Mount Muria, Central Java, on May 6, 2026.
“Waging Peace: A Militarism Summit” Nov. 6-7 at Forest Hills Mennonite Church in Leola, Pa., will bring together Christians to explore faithful responses to war, political polarization, nationalism and violence.
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.
The Center for Peace Church Theology at the University of Hamburg in Germany has awarded the 2026 Menno Simons Sermon Prize to Kate André, pastor of the Mennonite Congregation of Boston.
Nearly two dozen peace workers from 10 countries gathered for collaboration and encouragement March 26-29 at the European Peacebuilders’ Roundtable hosted at the Paris Mennonite Center in France.
