With Kenya’s president and his deputy facing trials at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands, parliamentarians here have voted to withdraw the country from the... Read More
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Roman Catholic Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth of the Kisumu Archdiocese and the chairperson of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission, said the withdrawal will breed impunity and injure human-rights protection. Photos by Fredrick Nzwili
September 13, 2013 | Web First | By FREDRICK NZWILI
A federal grand jury has indicted seven people, most members of a Mexican Mennonite community working with a drug cartel, accused of moving tons of pot to Colorado Springs and... Read More
September 12, 2013 | Web First | Tom McGheee
“To love our neighbours as we love ourselves means also to love ourselves as we love our neighbours. It means to treat ourselves with as much kindness and understanding as we... Read More
September 11, 2013 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
In Dieudonne’s small apartment in Altona, Man., there is a colourful menagerie of crocheted animals: elephants, frogs and cats. He sells them for $15 each because crocheting is... Read More
September 11, 2013 | Young Voices | Nolan Kehler
A smoke-filled hookah bar in Syria. A tense meeting with Israeli soldiers on a “Jesus Walk” in Nazareth. A classroom in the deep south of the U.S. in the 1970s. Standing by a... Read More
September 11, 2013 | Artbeat | MennoMedia
Mark Vuorinen rehearses with his 250-voice mass choir in preparation for the performance of the War Requiem.
At a time when the world is once again gearing up for war, its horrors will be dramatized and brought home in Waterloo Region through an annual three-day international peace... Read More
September 11, 2013 | Artbeat | By Dick Benner
A dinner of Palestinian food was provided by Mamduh Saedam, left, who opened a restaurant in Hamilton only three years after being sponsored as a refugee to come to Canada. Helping out is Moses Moini, MCC Ontario’s refugee program coordinator.
Omar Alawasaje’s story of being invited by his Canadian sponsors to “go camping,” and his immediate and reactive response of “No!” led to general laughter in the group gathered at... Read More
September 11, 2013 | God at work in the World | Story and Photo by Dave Rogalsky
The Cedar Valley Mennonite Church mission team members (dressed in orange T-shirts) from Mission, B.C., play in the streets of Santa María de Jesús, Guatemala, to attract neighbourhood children to the VBS program at nearby Bethel Church, a local congregation.
An ongoing discipleship and partnership program with a Guatemalan congregation led a team of 12 from Cedar Valley Mennonite Church in Mission, B.C., to travel to the Central... Read More
September 11, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Amy Dueckman
To kick off Conrad Grebel University College’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, president Susan Schultz Huxman, centre, and board chair Susan Taves prepare mortar to lay a date stone in a wall of the institution’s new $8.7-million addition. More than $6.2 million has been raised already for the project that is to be completed late next spring.
Conrad Grebel University College celebrated an anniversary last month that many in the Mennonite world thought would never happen.Read More
September 11, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Fred W. Martin
Gordon Allaby, pastor of Osler Mennonite Church, performs with his 14-year-old daughter, Katherine, at a Mennonite Church Saskatchewan gathering in Saskatoon on Aug. 14.
It was the perfect way to spend a summer afternoon on the Prairies. Saskatchewan Mennonites gathered in a park near Mount Royal Mennonite Church in Saskatoon on Aug. 18 to listen... Read More
September 11, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Story and Photos by Karin Fehderau
The United Church Observer , an award-winning independent monthly magazine published for the country’s largest Protestant denomination, is revealing the results of “Imagine: Your... Read More
September 11, 2013 | Web First | Staff reports
Egyptian Copts pray in Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian protests.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams took Britain’s Christian community to task last month when he said that Western Christians need to “grow up” and stop claiming they... Read More
September 5, 2013 | Web First | By MONIQUE EL-FAIZY
The old saying goes that it’s better to give than to receive, but Kristina Toews’ six months in Colombia have taught her differently. The 26-year-old Eben-Ezer Mennonite Church... Read More
August 28, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Canada is known as a land of plenty but, through the eyes of a newcomer, it’s not necessarily the land of happiness. Paulin Bossou and his family moved to Winnipeg from Africa two... Read More
August 28, 2013 | Young Voices | Bethany Penner
Poet Sally Ito was born in Taber, Alta., and currently lives in Winnipeg. She has published three books of poetry, along with a collection of short stories. Her latest book of... Read More
August 28, 2013 | Young Voices | Canadian Mennonite
A simple game like roller hockey has turned into a ministry that has been going on at Eden Mennonite Church in Chilliwack for more than 17 years. Eden offers its church parking... Read More
August 28, 2013 | Back Page | By Amy Dueckman
If all the texts in the Bible are important, how do we decide which texts are the most important, the ones that deserve our utmost attention, discernment or devotion?Read More
August 28, 2013 | Artbeat |
Dave Rogalsky at the Coliseum in Rome during his sabbatical this May.
Before we took it, many people questioned my sabbatical.Read More
August 28, 2013 | God at work in Us | By Dave Rogalsky
By the end of a long day of hearings, there are few adjectives—short of “monstrous”—that can do justice to the plain words of old men who face the Truth and Reconciliation... Read More
August 28, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Roger Epp
Steve Plenert, left, peace coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba, prays at Winnipeg’s Honour the Apology rally on July 25.
Of the approximately 150 people who attended an Honour the Apology rally at the Forks in Winnipeg on July 25, more than 20 were members of the Manitoba Mennonite community.Read More
August 28, 2013 | God at work in the World | Story and Photos by Deborah Froese
Flood damage in High River, Alta., is the worst Mennonite Disaster Service Canada has ever experienced.
“It was extremely daunting, knowing it was only one small basement on one street,” says volunteer Nancy Thiessen, one of about 250 people who volunteered with Mennonite Disaster... Read More
August 28, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Trish Elgersma
In a world where differences and distance often divide people of faith, Mennonite youth in the Democratic Republic of Congo are participating in an exchange program to strengthen... Read More
August 28, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Sheldon C. Good
Editor's Note: The following article arrived too late to appear in our Aug. 19 'Fat Calf Festival' print issue. On July 30, 2013, I travelled to Camp Assiniboia to deliver a... Read More
August 22, 2013 | Young Voices | Joanne Moyer
The backlash against Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt comes as secular forces across the Middle East are rising up in opposition to political Islam. Divisions reach from top... Read More
August 20, 2013 | Web First | By OREN DORELL of USA Today
Songwriters Keith and Kristyn Getty. Photo courtesy Getty Music
The dispute over dropping a beloved Christian song from a new Presbyterian hymnal has widened into a multi-denominational tussle, with Baptists joining the fray. At issue are... Read More
August 16, 2013 | Web First | By BOB SMIETANA of USA Today