Mennonite Central Committee leads ecumenical delegation to Iran
An ecumenical delegation organized by Mennonite Central Committee — the arm of Mennonite churches in North America for relief, development and peacemaking — has just returned from Iran. Among the...
View ArticleAn Iraq Journey: Remembering Rutba, seeing Jesus
by Weldon Nisly Pastor, Seattle Mennonite Church Bridgefolk board member Every day for nearly seven years I have remembered Iraq and envisioned returning to that war-torn occupied land. I have longed...
View ArticlePax Christi: Dialogue is the only way towards an end of the violence in Syria
Catholic peace organization Pax Christi has issued the following statement: Pax Christi International is deeply concerned about the latest events in Syria. While we unequivocally condemn the use of...
View ArticlePope: Angelus appeal for peace
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has called for a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, in the entire Mideast region, and throughout the whole world to be held this coming Saturday, September 7th,...
View ArticleEcumenical friendship calls for solidarity with ancient Christian communities...
Ecumenical friendship is not only about theological dialogue and common causes–it is also about solidarity in suffering, our calling to “bear one another’s burdens” in the body of Christ so that we...
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News and reflections: Pope Francis’s apology for church abuses to indigenous...
Pope Francis makes historic apology to Indigenous of Canada for church abuses by Nicole Winfield VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the...
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Bridgefolk to celebrate 20th year with 2022 conference "Standing at the...
Bridgefolk has announced a theme for its 2022 conference, to be held at St. John’s Abbey in Minnesota July 21-24, that will both look back at the movement’s 20 years of dialogue between Mennonites and...
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Bridgefolk opens registration for 2022 conference, in-person and online
Bridgefolk registration is now open for its 2022 conference, “Standing at the Crossroads,” which will look back at the movement’s 20 years of dialogue between Mennonites and Catholics, while...
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Online registration now available for Bridgefolk 2022
Online registration is now available for Bridgefolk 2022. Entitled “Standing at the Crossroads,” the conference will look back at the movement’s 20 years of dialogue between Mennonites and Catholics,...
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Register soon for Bridgefolk 2022! Early discount ends June 21
Online registration is now available for Bridgefolk 2022. Entitled “Standing at the Crossroads,” the conference will look back at the movement’s 20 years of dialogue between Mennonites and Catholics,...
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Standing at a crossroads, Bridgefolk asks how to repair harm to native peoples
PRESS RELEASE RE:Bridgefolk 2022 conference21-24 July 2022 Collegeville, MN (BRIDGEFOLK) – Participants in the Bridgefolk movement for dialogue and greater unity between Mennonites and Roman Catholics...
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Why we "proceed through friendship”
It was 2003 and Bridgefolk had publicly launched, the summer before, with its first annual conference. Within our founding circle we were aware of the worldwide Sant’Egidio movement based in Rome....
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Pfeil to speak on intercessory prayer in Mennonite and Catholic traditions
Bridgefolk participant and former board member Margaret Pfeil will speak on intercessory prayer in Mennonite and Catholic traditions at Seton Hall University on October 19 at 5 p.m. EDT. Her talk will...
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Videos from Bridgefolk 2022 now available online
Videos from the 2022 Bridgefolk conference, “Standing at the Crossroads” are now available online at Bridgefolk’s website. The conference “stood at the crossroads in two ways: It offered the...
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Catholic Nonviolence Initiative lecture series on gospel nonviolence now...
We are created out of Love and for Love. Conflict is a regular part of this human journey and an opportunity to grow. How do we grow into the persons and communities that God calls us to become? How...
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The late Pope Benedict XVI on the search for reconciliation by Anabaptists...
Following the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, The Plough magazine re-released the transcript of a 1995 interview with the future pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. The magazine is a ministry of the...
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Bridgefolk to hold 2023 conference in collaboration with Mennonite seminary
The 2023 Bridgefolk Conference will be a collaboration with the Rooted & Grounded Series of Conferences on Land and Christian Discipleship at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. “Pathways...
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Vatican formally repudiates "Doctrine of Discovery”
After years of pressure and following up on Pope Francis’s 2022 visit to Canada, the Vatican issued a statement on March 30 repudiating the 15th-century concepts known as the “Doctrine of Discovery,”...
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