Shareholders in Grupo San José have been urged to disinvest as satellite images show its subsidiary is involved in destruction of land inhabited by uncontacted Indians.
Leaders of an isolated South American tribe have issued a desperate public appeal on behalf of their family members hiding in forest targeted by cattle ranchers.
The United Nations is being urged to remove a controversial Brazilian cattle-ranching firm from an initiative designed for businesses committed to ethics and human rights.
Eighty-one high school students from Mennonite schools in Paraguay are training to be “peace servants” at Paraguay 2009, the Mennonite World Conference assembly in July.
Theological educators in Anabaptist-related institutions around the world are being invited to a Consultation on Theological Education just before Mennonite World Conference's fifteenth assembly in Paraguay.
Health care workers from around the world who share a common Anabaptist faith will consult together about their work as Christian medical practitioners at an international gathering in Paraguay.
By late-February, more than 1,500 international registrations had been processed for Mennonite World Conference's 15th global assembly in Asunción, Paraguay, which is to be held from 14-19 July 2009.