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 ...

(RNS) — Anabaptists around the world are commemorating 500 years since their founders performed the first adult baptisms outside Zürich and kicked off the Radical Reformation. A tradition that ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A TV documentary series about an Anabaptist community in Montana offers a “distorted” and contrived image, bishops representing the Hutterite faith in the U.S. and Canada said ...

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 ...

John D. Roth is project director of MennoMedia’s Anabaptism at 500 project, which commemorates the first adult baptisms in Zurich in January 1525—the symbolic start of the Anabaptist movement. Before ...

The simplest storyline puts the start on Jan. 21, 1525, in Zürich, Switzerland. A band of acquaintances made their way to the home of Anna Manz, mother of Felix, one of their number. For months, this ...

Pope Leo XIV encouraged the Anabaptist (Mennonite) movement to live with love the call to Christian unity and the mandate to serve others. The Holy Father made the statement in a message published May ...

BLUFFTON — Bluffton University’s library director will discuss early Anabaptist Bibles during a colloquium presentation at 4 p.m. Friday, March 14, in the Musselman Library Reading Room on the ...