Mennonite World Review

Articles : Asia

Feb. 21, 2011 issue

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  Photo by Mousam Jefferin/MMN

  Hospital celebrates missionary founders

  DHAMTARI, India — The night air reverberated with energetic singing, the crack of fireworks and shouts in Hindi of “Hurray for Jesus Christ!”

  Shopkeepers and their customers were drawn from their shops to watch a candlelight procession. The crowd was celebrating the 100th anniversary of Dhamtari Christian Hospital, an institution founded by Mennonite mission workers.

Feb. 7, 2011 issue

• MWC visitors build believers’ identity in India, Indonesia

  A Mennonite leader in India had a big question for a visiting Canadian teacher last fall.

• Chinese start an Anabaptist network

  HONG KONG — Another Anabaptist network is taking shape, this time in East Asia.

Jan. 24, 2011 issue

• Debit cards spell relief for Pakistan flood victims

  More than 1.6 million flood victims in Pakistan will soon flash plastic debit cards as a way to get back on their feet after last summer’s monsoon deluge, which left millions homeless.

Jan. 17, 2011 issue

• Koreans pave way of peace

  Though Jae Young Lee doesn’t think the recent North Korean shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island will lead to war, he is alarmed by what is happening in North and South Korea.

Jan. 3, 2011 issue

• Love for Lapp crosses borders

  AKRON, Pa. — Two months after Mennonite Central Committee worker Glen Lapp and nine other aid workers were killed in rural Afghanistan, Lapp’s father, Marvin, brother Jerry and cousin Joe were welcomed in the guesthouse in Kabul where Lapp had lived.

• Church headquarters demolished in Vietnam

  HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnamese authorities demolished two adjacent buildings that serve as the headquarters of the unregistered Mennonite churches in Vietnam, and a Mennonite pastor was injured in a confrontation nearby.

Dec. 6, 2010 issue

• Former exchange participants guide youth toward peace

  SICHUAN, China — When Yin Wang of China volunteered to work with young people from China, Japan and South Korea at the Northeast Asia Peace Camp, she was inspired by the service she had witnessed as a teacher’s assistant in Canby, Ore.

Nov. 22, 2010 issue

• Indonesians aid victims of back-to-back disasters

  YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian Mennonites struggled to keep up with the need for relief efforts after three natural disasters — volcanic eruptions, flash floods and a tsunami — struck the country in six weeks.

• MCC responds to Indonesia disasters through partner organization

  In Java, Indonesia, palm trees fold like umbrellas under the weight of volcanic ash spewing from Mount Merapi.

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