(RNS) — Anabaptists around the world are commemorating ... some of whom later became the movement’s first martyrs, met in the ...

Today’s Christian nationalists have shaped their theology in ways that harken to apocalyptic prophets of the1530s.

Others were burned at the stake. It’s estimated that about 30% of the martyrs were women. The January 2025 issue of Anabaptist World counts about 2.13 million baptized Anabaptist church members ...

Along with the Jura region in western Switzerland, it was an ideal place of refuge for Anabaptists fleeing persecution by the state authorities. They held secret gatherings in forest clearings and ...

Bluffton University will host a Reader’s Theatre, “I Have Not Forsaken the Word of God,” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in ...

Early Anabaptists suffered persecution and martyrdom under Catholic and Protestant rulers in Europe, a history that still ...

Bluffton University will host a Reader’s Theatre entitled “I Have Not Forsaken the Word of God” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in College Hall’s Ramseyer Auditorium.

Mennonites are part of the wider Anabaptist family of churches, which emerged in 1525 as the radical wing of the Protestant Reformation in Central Europe. Other Anabaptist branches today include ...