500: The courage to love

Commemorating 500 years of Anabaptism

Thursday, 29 May 2025 (Ascension Day)

Zurich, Switzerland

A woman singing into the microphone witch backup singers singing behind her

On-site events
(Zurich 2025)

To be posted soon:

Preparation events

  • Worship resources
Mennonite World Conference logo + Grossmunster spires + "500 years of the Anabaptist movement: The courage to  love"

  • Workshops 

    Workshops 

    Perspectives (Anabaptism@500 activities) Activities for the commemoration of 500 years of the Anabaptist movement in Zurich on 29 May 2025 included 18 workshops over two periods. Rooms in several locations throughout the downtown generously provided by the Reformed church were…

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  • The Courage to Love 

    The Courage to Love 

    She was a young, enslaved girl. We don’t know her name, but we do know that she was a prisoner of war. We can only imagine the vulnerability, loss and trauma she must have endured as a displaced person –…

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  • Living in a new era 

    Living in a new era 

    César García (right) interviewed church leaders from other traditions who were present throughout General Council meetings in May 2025. (l-r) Paul Tché, Tim Gee, Neil Vigers, Hanns Lessing (with microphone), Samuel van der Maas,  Anne-Cathy Graber (MWC secretary for ecumenical…

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  • A movement that has been diverse and international 

    A movement that has been diverse and international 

    The bells rang out across the city that full of Anabaptists. An estimated 3 500 or more people filled the streets of old Zurich on Ascension Day 29 May 2025 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Anabaptism.   “Today, as Mennonites in…

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  • From celebration to commemoration 

    From celebration to commemoration 

    Mennonite World Conference (MWC) concludes its triennial General Council (GC) meeting 26-28 May 2025 in Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Germany, with a clear framework for the future.  

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  • Igreja dos Irmãos Menonitas de Portugal  

    Igreja dos Irmãos Menonitas de Portugal  

    Courier: Perspectives Europe: Portugal Anabaptist church beginnings: A snapshot  A series of North American missionary couples came and went from the MB mission agency through the 1980s and 1990s but the seeds planted in a house church in the Lourés…

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