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Articles : Australia and Pacific Islands

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.

Subversive element

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.