• World Mennonites pray for courage and love

    “What a good way to end our day praying together as a global church,” says Sushant Nand, a leader in Mennonite Church India. He led a breakout room for Online Prayer Hour, a bimonthly event at 14:00 UTC that gathers Anabaptist-Mennonites from around the world.   After a short prayer focus on Mennonite Action (a movement…

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    World Mennonites pray for courage and love
  • MWC mourns with our brothers and sisters in Myanmar

    Our Mennonite World Conference siblings from Myanmar have asked for the prayers of our global communion. They write: Our country’s civil war has been ongoing for more than three years. The death toll is rising every day. More than half of the country is under the control of the revolutionary armies. The junta’s military population…

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    MWC mourns with our brothers and sisters in Myanmar
  • We will continue to pray

    “Praise God we had a meaningful prayer time for unity of Spirit to pray for suffering and bleeding humanity. May God have mercy over this world. We will continue pray for shared points,” says participant Rechal Bagh.

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  • A reconciling response to war in the Middle East

    October 2023 At a time of increasing bloodshed between Israelis and Palestinians, with mounting tension between nations of the Middle East and beyond, leaders of Mennonite World Conference make three urgent appeals: That member churches of Mennonite World Conference pray and act for an end to the spiral of violence and injustice1 in the Middle…

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    A reconciling response to war in the Middle East
  • A pastoral letter for peace in the Holy Land

    Beloved sisters and brothers: Over the weekend the world was shaken by Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israeli lives. This crisis quickly escalated with air raids, land battles, random killings, kidnappings and war propaganda.  No one is more disadvantaged by this escalating situation than the civilians who just wish to live a normal life without fearing…

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    A pastoral letter for peace in the Holy Land
  • A pastoral letter for Anabaptists in West Africa

    In recent weeks we have been made aware of the escalating violent conflict in West Africa along the Central Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, affecting our brothers and sisters in the Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso (l’Église Évangélique Mennonite du Burkina Faso).

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    A pastoral letter for Anabaptists in West Africa
  • Pastoral letter regarding persecuted Anabaptists

    My flesh and my heart may fail,  but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psalm 73:26)  Beloved sisters and brothers: An MWC member church in an African country is not recognized by the government and thus operates in difficult circumstances. Recently, the BBC reported that a pastor from this MWC…

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    Pastoral letter regarding persecuted Anabaptists
  • Pray and act for peace

    “They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (Isaiah 2:4)  Christians are called into prayer and advocacy for peace. In a global context where war and violence abound, the practice of peace has become even more…

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    Pray and act for peace
  • Let us pray

    “Thank you for carrying us in your hearts,” says Siaka Traore, MWC regional representative for Central and West Africa. Mennonite World Conference members are invited to gather together Online Prayer Hour, 18 November 2022.  This event will briefly feature sharing about Burkina Faso from Natacha Wendyam Kyendrebeogo. A member of the Église Évangélique Mennonite du…

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  • After Zoom, prayers carry on

    Online Prayer Hour doesn’t end when the hour does. Not only do participants in Mennonite World Conference’s bimonthly prayer meeting continue for another 15 minutes – greeting each in other in a pandemonium of languages – they also carry prayers back to their local congregations.  On 18 March 2022, participants in breakroom rooms prayed in…

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    After Zoom, prayers carry on
  • A pastoral letter regarding Ukraine

    We call on Anabaptist-Mennonites around the world, and all who confess Christ as Lord, to join in praying for the peace of Ukraine. We grieve violence and we reject efforts by any nation to dominate another. We pray for leaders of Ukraine, Russia and allied nations as they respond to or participate in this crisis.  

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    A pastoral letter regarding Ukraine
  • A pastoral letter for Anabaptists in Ukraine

    Dear Anabaptist Christians on all continents:  This is a call to prayer for the peace of Ukraine, and for the well being of Anabaptist Christians living with the threat of a foreign military invasion. Hundreds of thousands of German-speaking Mennonites once lived in Ukraine. Nearly all migrated or were forcibly removed during political upheavals of…

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