by Sean Reilly | Mar 5, 2008
Forty pastors from five different tribes and denominations met for a peace-building seminar at the Eastleigh Fellowship Centre, located in a semi-slum area of Nairobi, recently. The centre facilitates church and community programmes. Jewel Showalter writes: Pastor...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 19, 2008
A fourth 40-foot container of medical supplies and hospital equipment from Dutch Mennonites arrived in Tanzania in late December 2007. Doopsgezind WereldWerk, the Dutch Mennonite Organization for Solidarity and Peace (www.dgwereldwerk.nl), sent the shipment on to...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 17, 2008
Two weeks after the country’s disputed election and the violence that has followed in its wake, Mennonite relief work is continuing and the peace church reports that Kenyan Mennonite Church members are safe despite the troubles. Mennonite Central Committee (MCC,...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 8, 2008
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. The comment came as the...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 5, 2008
Representatives of the world’s Historic Peace Churches gathered in Solo, Indonesia in December 2007, to ask what “Peace in Our Land” means practically – through the interrelated topics of injustice, religious pluralism, and poverty. These churches – which...