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  • 8 Feb 2012
    Kenyan Mennonites make history by writing it

    A book book chronicling the Kenya Mennonite Church’s 50-year history has been put together in Africa and will be published next year.

  • 13 Dec 2011
    Churches and the struggle with an energy giant in rural Guatemala

    Church leaders in Guatemala have played a significant role in the struggle to thwart controversial plans by a European energy giant, defending the widely ignored rights of the indigenous community, writes Tobias Roberts, on assignment with Mennonite Central Committee from North America. ENEL is the largest utility in Italy and the second largest in Europe, with revenues of more than US$100 billion in 2010.

  • 2 Dec 2011
    Religious and humanist commitment to peace

    A recent press comment from Mennonite World Conference acts as a helpful reminder of an important declaration inviting belief communities - faith-based and otherwise - to commit to peace in the midst of a world still riven with conflict and religiously- or ideologically-sanctioned violence.

  • 2 Dec 2011
    Mennonites welcome Assisi peace and prayer opportunity

    Mennonite leaders have reflected positively on their recent experiences of a day of reflection, dialogue and personal prayer in Assisi, Italy.

  • 21 Nov 2011
    Mennonites welcome achievements of the Global Christian Forum

    Mennonites have been reflecting on the significance of the recent second international gathering of the Global Christian Forum (GCF).

  • 11 Nov 2011
    Tree planting marks deepening of Mennonite-Lutheran relations

    Mennonites have planted two trees in the 'Luthergarten' in Wittenberg, Germany, to mark the deepening of Mennonite-Lutheran relations.

  • 11 Oct 2011
    Mennonites back Lutheran relief work in the Horn of Africa

    An NGO supported by Mennonites has made a significant contribution to the Lutheran church's work at refugee camps serving the Horn of Africa.

  • 18 Aug 2011
    The world re-described

    Theology is ‘wrestling with the unfathomable mystery of God’, but to enlighten rather than to obscure, says Simon Barrow, paying tribute to two Mennonite scholars and pastors, Alan and Eleanor Kreider, as part of a festschrift entitled 'Forming Christian Habits in Post-Christendom'.

  • 25 Jun 2011
    Making armed force redundant

    Edinburgh will be awash with military symbolism and celebration today (25 June 2011), as the city hosts the national event for Armed Forces Day - which David Cameron last year said should be “an explosion of red white and blue all over the country.” That thought may cause SNP First Minister Alex Salmond at least a moment's hiccup as he stands next to the PM on the podium!

  • 20 Jun 2011
    Lutherans to continue dialogue with Catholics and Mennonites

    The Lutheran World Federation council has approved plans for three-way talks that will include Lutherans, Roman Catholics, and Mennonites.