Category - peace churches

2008 London Mennonite Theology Forum: Responsibility to Protect

Jordan Tchilingirian — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:51:40 +0000

Start: 18/07/2008 - 18:30

End: 19/07/2008 - 14:00

What is the responsibility of the international community when a state is unable or unwilling to protect its own people?

Kingston Jamaica to host global churches' peace conference

staff writers — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:56:35 +0000

Kingston, Jamaica, will be the host city for the World Council of Churches' International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in 2011, it has been announced - marking a decade of activity promoting practical responses to violence.

Gospel message needs witness for peace, say Latin American Anabaptists

agency reporter — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:57:44 +0000

Anabaptism, a dissenting Christian tradition associated with the world's historic peace churches, provides a specific way of understanding what it means to follow Jesus, a leading presenter at a major Mennonite consultation has declared.

Mennonites join in anti-cluster bombs initiative

staff writers — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:19:58 +0000

A major North American peace church agency, Mennonite Central Committee, is adding its weight to a Spring mobilisation against the cruelty of cluster bombs - via a bill in the US Senate.

Mennonites strengthen relations with Congolese churches

staff writers — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Against the backdrop of a country still transitioning from civil war to an elected presidential system of rule, Christians representing two of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Mennonite conferences, Communaut?© Evang?©lique Mennonite (CEM) and Communaut?© Mennonite au Congo (CMCO), have welcomed delegates from Mennonite Church USA in a relationships building exercise.

Canadian Mennonites face threat to citizenship

staff writers — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:33:10 +0000

Hundreds of Mennonites living in Canada may face losing their Canadian citizenship on account of the non-recognition of church marriages in Latin America, where some 7,000 of their ancestors moved in the 1920s, reports UPI and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.