In villages to towns across Africa, messages of HIV prevention are resonating through churches in the wake of global events marking World AIDS Day. But the border between faith... Read More
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Clinton commits $3 million to seed Global Equality Fund.
The world needs to act more proactively to promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people, said United States Secretary of State... Read More
December 6, 2011 | Web First | By John Zarocostas
Mayan Ixhil community members protest outside the Catholic church in the town of Cotzal after ENEL representatives failed to show up for a scheduled August 2, 2011 negotiation session. Photo by Yasmin Méndez.
Tension filled the cramped, block-wall room in the Guatemalan highlands as indigenous leaders sat across from negotiators for ENEL, an Italian-based energy company building a $228... Read More
December 6, 2011 | Web First | Tobias Roberts, MCC development worker
Mary Castello, second year music student at Wilfrid University
Mary Castello is the 2012 recipient of the $3,500 Abner Martin music scholarship given by Menno Singers, a community choir in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Mary, who is from... Read More
December 5, 2011 | Web First | news release
MCCO supports the growing plea for a sustainable housing plan in Attawapiskat and other remote First Nations. --MCCO Photo by Lyndsay Mollins Koene.
Mennonite Central Committee Ontario ( MCCO ) supports the growing plea for a sustainable housing plan inRead More
December 1, 2011 | Web First | Lyndsay Mollins Koene
The present hymnal will be 20 years old in 2012
Nearly 100 congregations in Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada are reporting on the songs they sing. They are helping to determine what the next collection of music... Read More
November 30, 2011 | Web First | Steve Shenk
The Rev. Mautji Eloridge Pataki, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, met with Keyla Cortez Vanegas, a Mennonite World Conference intern at MCC U.N. Office, to encourage her while he was in New York City for a meeting. --Doug Hostetter photo
As a Christian who takes her faith seriously, Keyla Cortez Vanegas was shocked by New York City’s secularism when she arrived there in August. Cortez Vanegas belongs to Esquipulas... Read More
November 30, 2011 | Web First | Emily Will, freelance writer from Frederick, MD
Will Braun: 'The case would be stronger if North American reps stayed home.'
When it comes to carbon emissions and care for the Earth, Canadian faith leaders should practise what they preach, says a local environmental activist. Will Braun says the two... Read More
November 29, 2011 | Web First | Brenda Suderman
Pat and Rad Houmphan, with the congregation of Living Water Church in Borabu, will use the money to assemble care packages.
Mennonite Church Canada has wired $3,500 for flood relief in Thailand. Executive staff approved the emergency gift on Nov. 16. Mennonite Church Canada workers Pat and Rad Houmphan... Read More
November 25, 2011 | Web First | Deborah Froese
Ask Dustin Bueckert if he thinks incorporating his faith into his day job is important, and he will tell you yes. “It keeps you credible,” says Bueckert, who owns and operates... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
“And God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Young Voices | Kaylin Epp
“Freedom is coming. . . . Justice is coming, oh yes I know.” While many people in the area and across Canada congregated to watch cannons being fired and soldiers marching, more... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Instead of dragging their cook books around with them on Mennonite Disaster Service assignments, Anne Friesen, left, and Tina Heppner, of Altona, Man., use their laptops to look up recipes and keep in touch with their grandchildren.
“Creative cooks to produce three substantial, from-scratch meals per day for groups of five to 35. Successful candidates must be able to travel and remain away from home for up to... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Focus On | By Emily Will
Mennonite Central Committee ( MCC ) recently conducted a re-visioning process called New Wine/New Wineskins: Reshaping MCC for the 21st Century, to review various aspects of the... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Barb Draper
There is a difference between doing well and doing good in business, Grant Unrau says. Doing good is something that Stun Collective, a strategic design company, strives to do on a... Read More
November 23, 2011 | God at work in Us | By Rachel Bergen
Mennonite Savings and Credit Union gave Mennonite Central Committee Ontario a half-million dollars towards its new $12 million complex in Kitchener, Ont.
Mennonite Savings and Credit Union recently gave a half-million dollars towards the new $12 million building project of Mennonite Central Committee ( MCC ) Ontario at the latter’s... Read More
November 23, 2011 | God at work in the World | By Dave Rogalsky
Mennonite Savings and Credit Union’s $1 million gift will add a fourth floor to the plans for a $6.3 million centre announced in the spring that would triple space for the Mennonite Archives of Ontario, double study space and add 460 square metres for community education in the Peace and Conflict Studies Department
Susan Schultz Huxman , the newly installed president of Conrad Grebel University College, called it a “transformative gift, the largest single gift in Conrad Grebel’s history.”... Read More
November 23, 2011 | God at work in the Church | By Dick Benner
One chapter of the Mennonite Church British Columbia story came to a close on Nov. 5 when delegates voted at a special meeting to return the title for former member Olivet... Read More
November 23, 2011 | God at work in the Church | By Amy Dueckman
Anders Behring Breivik is being held in custody charged with mass murder.
In the aftermath of attacks last July that killed 77 and were carried out by a self-described "cultural Christian," Norwegian Christians and Muslims on Nov. 22 jointly condemned... Read More
November 22, 2011 | Web First | By ENInews Staff
Religious groups are opposing a proposed new international law on cluster bombs currently being discussed in Geneva since they say it would put more civilians at risk than an... Read More
November 22, 2011 | Web First | By John Zarocostas
During a lunch gathering on their last day at AMBS, Irene and Jack Suderman reflected on forty years of ministry. A prevailing theme, Jack noted, is the important role of the church in our lives and in the world. “The peoplehood of God is the primary strategy God wants to use to heal the world,” he said.
Robert J. (Jack) and Irene Suderman say it was a gift to spend five weeks at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary where they studied almost 40 years ago. Jack and Irene were... Read More
November 21, 2011 | Web First | Mary E. Klassen (story and photo)
A Polish monastic order has defended its decision to bar a former superior-general from speaking to the media, despite a protest against the decision from thousands of the priest'... Read More
November 21, 2011 | Web First | By Jonathan Luxmoore
From left: Payam Bagheri, Esteban Rivera (coordinator), Maria del Pilou Ofunoz, Michael Seviour (mentor) and Weiwen Ye at a conversation class organized by RIAC in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador. --MCC Photo by Nina Linton
Jose Rivera understands the diverse needs of newcomers as they try to develop a sense of belonging in a new country. Death threats forced him, his wife Maria and their two... Read More
November 21, 2011 | Web First | By Gladys Terichow
The GCF Committee. Anne-Cathy-Graber, MWC representative, is on the far right.
Anabaptists were among the 287 participants in a diverse Christian gathering held here October 4-7. The meeting was the second international gathering of the Global Christian... Read More
November 21, 2011 | Web First | Ron Rempel, news editor