Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Australia and Pacific Islands

May 25, 2009 issue

• Peace house in Australia for young adults blessed

  CANBERRA, Australia — Praying room-by-room, more than 50 people offered blessings at the March 22 opening of Irene’s Place — a house of discipleship and peace in Australia’s capital.

Aug. 20, 2007 issue

• Subversive element

  SUTHERLAND, Australia — Traditional Christian churches often are a small and marginalized element within Australian society.

April 9, 2007 issue

• In Indonesia, MCC helps provide refuge from stigma of AIDS

  JAYAPURA, Indonesia — On Saturday evenings, Eka sometimes takes a break from life’s difficulties to watch a TV soap opera with friends at a support group shelter in Indonesia’s Papua province.

March 12, 2007 issue

• Indonesians wage peace in dialogue with Muslims

  SOLO, Indonesia — Mennonite witness to the way of Jesus has forged surprising new friendships in a land once fraught with tensions and violence between Christians and Muslims.

• Missions taught ‘from Asia for Asia’

  SEMARANG and JEPARA, Indonesia — Designed to build “cross-cultural mission foundations from Asia and for Asia,” the first Asian World Missions Institute met Feb. 3-18, hosted by Mennonite churches.

Oct. 9, 2006 issue

• Philippine churches host Holy Spirit celebration

  LUMBAN, the Philippines — Wending two miles along narrow stone streets, 45 international guests from Mennonite churches in 16 countries waved country flags as they trekked from the mayor’s office to Lumban Mennonite Bible Church.

April 10, 2006 issue

• Couple teach peace in Australia

  SYDNEY, Australia — Marcel­line Tunim lived through much violence during the decade-long conflict between Bougainville and Papua New Guinea. She watched loved ones die.

July 4, 2005 issue

• Indonesians build largest Anabaptist church

  SEMARANG, Indonesia — Indonesian Mennonites have almost finished building the world’s largest Anabaptist church.

• Indonesians host ‘Holy Spirit in Mission’ conference

  SEMARANG, Indonesia — Mennonite leaders from 16 nations celebrated the Holy Spirit’s power, traveled across Indonesia in ministry teams and attended to the business of an international missions group May 12-21.

June 27, 2005 issue

• Talks with Muslims point way to peace

  MINDANAO, Philippines — When a group of Mennonites visited a Muslim leader in Marawi City recently, he told them he had been banned from many mosques after he initiated dialogue with Christians.

June 13, 2005 issue

• Indonesians answer MCC’s call

  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Three former participants of a Mennonite Central Committee International Visitor Exchange Program are the backbone of MCC’s efforts to assist victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami.

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