World & Nation
Fifteen years after the last sorties were flown, people still are being killed and maimed by the cluster bombs that U.S. warplanes dropped on rural Laos, U.S. relief workers say.
June 26, 1988
California
The church’s Southland membership was once declining and mainly white. Now 94% Asian, African or Latino, it has doubled in 20 years.
April 30, 2005
Mennonite Central Committee warehouses that were overflowing with relief supplies in the middle of 1988 were empty by the end of the year as a result of a series of disasters that occurred at the rate of one a month.
Dec. 31, 1988
What do you call a Mennonite who left the farm, went to college and got a job in the city? A Muppie.
May 11, 1986
The world that Abraham Groening and his Mennonite ancestors fled for 400 years has caught up with him.
March 4, 1990
Vietnam arrested and expelled an American English teacher for allegedly threatening national security and possessing secret documents, Hanoi radio and the teacher’s sponsoring organization said Friday.
June 9, 1990
Books
Sofia Samatar’s “The White Mosque,” a singular memoir about a journey through Asia on the trail of a Mennonite sect, tracks a personal search as well.
Oct. 24, 2022
Despite increasing complaints, Mennonite owners of the three Good’s Stores in central Pennsylvania refuse to stock one popular item: the American flag.
Oct. 13, 2001
Travel & Experiences
I was new in Amish Country, but I was well-coached.
June 21, 1992
Today’s Mennonites, members of a historic, relatively large denomination working in America since colonial days, don’t match the image some people have of them.
July 31, 1993