Raphael Mthombeni was the conference minister of the Brethren in Christ Church for the Gwayi District in Zimbabwe. He had just spent a week sleeping inside the ceiling of the mission house, because word had spread that he the next in line to be killed because of his involvement with dissidents. A group of five Keep Reading…
Joseph, Michael, and David Hofer and Jacob Wipf (Hutterite Martyrs of 1918)
Of the many accounts of war resistance during the First World War, there are few more harrowing than the story of the four Hutterites who were imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth in 1918. The Hutterites are descendants of a large group of Austrian peasants who broke away from the Catholic church in the sixteenth century, living Keep Reading…
Suzanovo Martyrs
The village of Suzanovo in the Orenburg region of Russia was founded in 1911 by Johann Peters, as a farmstead outside of the larger Mennonite settlement in that area. In the early years, it was populated by Johann and his children. Later, other Mennonites joined this Mennonite island located amidst Russian and Bashkir villages. In Keep Reading…
Black Kettle, Cheyenne peace chief
On November 27, 1868, Black Kettle, a Cheyenne peace chief, and his wife, Medicine Woman Later, were shot in the back and killed by United States Cavalry fire as they tried to escape an army attack during the Washita Massacre along the Washita River in Oklahoma. Black Kettle’s witness as a Cheyenne chief who pushed Keep Reading…