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Reflect back to reflect forward
The Courier editor gathered former leaders (Danisa Ndlovu, J. Nelson Kraybill, Larry Miller, Nancy Heisey) to reflect on the “sweet memories” of watching MWC become a global communion and on our call to have the courage to love and to speak as a peace church to strife in the world today.
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Bearing witness to a living faith
With zeal and devotion, early Anabaptists lived out their faith in bold and risky ways that broke with the established church. This year, as Mennonite World Conference marked 500 years of the Anabaptist movement, we lived out our faith through reconciliation with churches that had once been opposed. Hospitality At the end of a long…
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COP 30 blogs by a Dutch Mennonite
Updates from COP 29 – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) This year, Marijke van Duin was once again an observer at the annual United Nations Climate Summit as a delegate of the World Council of Churches. This 30th climate summit, COP 30, was held in Belém, Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest. Marijke…
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Assembly 18 postponed
The Mennonite World Conference Assembly in Ethiopia is postponed to a different date and country.
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A pastoral letter of remembrance and mourning
7 October 2025 is the tragic anniversary of an outbreak of violence that has led to hundreds of thousands of lives lost in the lands called Israel and Palestine and also in the larger region.
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A reminder of our presence in the world
“We are stewards of creation; this tree reminds us that every step we take as Commissions, as Officers, and Networks has repercussions for creation,” says Henk Stenvers, MWC president. It also symbolizes our presence in the world, he said. The Executive Committee, Commissions, staff and Creation Care Task Force planted a linden tree (tilia cordata)…
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MKC calls for prayer from our global Anabaptist family
Beloved sisters and brothers Mennonite World Conference calls for prayer for our member church Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) facing religious persecution in Ethiopia from extremist factions. The latest incident to affect ministers of the gospel in MKC occurred 15 May 2025. An extremist group in the region attacked an evangelist working in the West Hararghe.…
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MWC welcomes election of new pope
Mennonite World Conference congratulates Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on his election as Pope and 267th Bishop of Rome 8 May 2025, taking the papal name Leo XIV. The election makes history with the first pope selected from North America, following Pope Francis (Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio) who was the first Latin American. In a letter…
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In memoriam: Pope Francis (1936-2025)
Photo: Ashwin Vaswani/Unsplash Mennonite World Conference joins Catholics and other faith communities across the world in mourning the loss of Pope Francis, who died on 21 April 2025, at the age of 88. He had been recovering at his residence Domus Sanctae Marthae after hospitalization for bilateral pneumonia. “With gratitude, we remember the life of…
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Easter message: Together
A holy day message from the General Secretary Christ is risen! He is risen indeed. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed for his followers to be one. This Easter, I am pleased to share this message from leaders of Christian communions across twelve distinct traditions. Through my work with various world communion leaders, I…
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Urgent prayer: earthquake in Myanmar
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar, followed by a 6.4 magnitude aftershock. The earthquake affected the region as far as Thailand, China and India.
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Collaborative Anabaptist response to DRC crisis
“We are deprived of the Bibles, water, soaps and even food,” writes a representative of the youth organization of a Mennonite Brethren church in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “We are soliciting the accompaniment of your prayers and materials.” Mennonite World Conference has convened an inter-Anabaptist task force to respond to the…
