Mennonite World Review

Articles : Other Anabaptists

April 1 issue

• Old Order men charged with child abuse

  Two members of a Manitoba Old Order Mennonite community have been charged with physically abusing at least seven children ages 7 to 14.

Nov. 26, 2012 issue

• Anabaptist identity pursued in India

  Jai Prakash “J.P.” Masih wants to spread the gospel, whether that be in Chicago or Chandwa.

May 28, 2012 issue

• The quiet in the Scandinavian land

  On a farmstead outside Skövde in southern Sweden, a group of Anabaptists is regularly mistaken for wayward Amish.

April 2, 2012 issue

• On ‘Titanic’ centennial, missionary’s life remembered

  HARLEYSVILLE, Pa. — When Annie Clemmer Funk, a Mennonite missionary to India, learned her mother was very ill in Pennsylvania, she quickly packed her bags and caught a train to Bombay. From there she traveled to England, where she learned a coal strike had delayed her ship’s voyage to the U.S.

Feb. 13, 2012 issue

• Iowa Supreme Court sides with Mennonites in steel wheels case

  DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a group of Old Order Mennonites on Feb. 3 in a case involving their use of steel wheels on tractors.

Jan. 23, 2012 issue

• Gospel should change lives

  I am part of the Pilgrim Mennonite Conference group that is holding services in New York City. In the June 20, 2011, issue of Mennonite Weekly Review, Charlie Kraybill commented on our work in the Bronx in an article titled, “In the City, Might the Saving Process Go Both Ways?” He noted that when Mennonites went to the city as missionaries in earlier decades, change came to them in similar proportions to the change they expected to bring to the city.

Jan. 9, 2012 issue

• Evangelical Mennonite Conference celebrates 200-year history

  A Canadian Mennonite denomination that has withstood chang­es in name, language and continent — all in the name of staying true to its values — celebrates two centuries of existence in 2012.

Jan. 2, 2012 issue

• Bolivian colonists try to move past trauma

  In the isolated Manitoba Col­ony of Bolivia, Old Colony Mennonites are beginning to move on with life after the conclusion of a trial that focused global attention on the community.

Dec. 19, 2011 issue

• New charges in custody dispute

  In a child-custody conflict involving a former lesbian couple and allegations of international kidnapping, a Beachy Amish minister faces charges for his alleged role.

Nov. 21, 2011 issue

• Old Order’s steel wheels at odds with law in Iowa

  OSAGE, Iowa — After the Iowa Supreme Court got involved, Groffdale Conference Old Order Mennonites and Mitchell County officials thought they might be able to sit down together and draft a compromise.

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