If they refused to renounce their belief in adult baptism and most did the church drowned or beheaded the martyrs. It boiled them in oil. It burned them alive. Thousands of beleaguered Anabaptists ...

What do resistance, resilience and rest look like for Anabaptists at a time like this? That was the focus of Pastors & ...

2025 is a year of anniversaries. From the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed to the 80th anniversary of VE Day, there are many milestones to reflect on. Another one is the 500th anniversary of the ...

Modern-day Münster with St. Lambert's church in the background. Photo: DPA While many people might know of Münster as a wealthy uni town or the country's bike capital, few know that it belongs to a ...

LANCASTER, Pa. — Some members of the Anabaptist community — including a group of local Amish men — have a message for the Jewish people. They're sorry. They expressed their sorrow in words and song ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has formally apologized for Lutheran persecution of Anabaptists in 16th-century Europe. A statement approved by the ELCA Church Council, the denomination’s ...

(UNDATED) In the early 16th century, groups of European Christians started splitting from the Roman Catholic Church in what is now known as the Protestant Reformation. But while Protestants and ...

Liz Hess' painting of the Emmental area in Switzerland looks deceptively idyllic: Green pastures, snow-capped mountains, a church spire, grazing cows, gentle farms and a winding pathway. It's only the ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and author of "The Purpose Driven Life," says that the 16th-century Anabaptists shaped his Purpose Driven ...

Rhoda Janzen's life is the stuff of a riveting, albeit unfortunate, tale. She survived a car crash, realized her husband was gay and sought refuge in her parents' Mennonite home for a string of ...