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Bishop Mark Hanson, Lutheran World Federation president (left) received a foot-washing tub from MWC president Danisa Ndlovu on July 22 in Stuttgart, Germany. Noting that the practice of foot-washing is an important practice and symbol in some Anabaptist-Mennonite churches, Ndlovu said the tub was “a sign of our commitment to a future when the distinguishing mark of Lutheran and Anabaptist-Mennonite relationships is boundless love and unfailing service.” Photo © LWF / Erick Coll -- Download original photo (2.3MB)
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Mennonite World Conference (MWC) is a global community of Christian churches rooted in the 16th-century Radical Reformation in Europe, particularly in the Anabaptist movement. Today, more than 1,600,000 believers belong to this faith family; more than 60 percent are African, Asian, or Latin American.
MWC represents 99 Mennonite and Brethren in Christ national churches from 56 countries on six continents.
Vision
Mennonite World Conference is called to be a communion (Koinonia) of Anabaptist-related churches linked to one another in a worldwide community of faith for fellowship, worship, service, and witness.
Mission
MWC exists to (1) be a global community of faith in the Anabaptist-tradition, (2) facilitate relationships between Anabaptist-related churches worldwide, and (3) relate to other Christian world communions and organizations.
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Lutherans and Anabaptists reconcile in service of repentance and forgiveness |
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July 27, 2010
Stuttgart, Germany—Almost 500 years of guilt were formally laid to rest July 22 as representatives of 70 million Lutherans around the world asked forgiveness for the violent persecution of Anabaptists in the 16th century and for the way negative portrayals of Anabaptists and Mennonites have been allowed to continue within their communities and theological institutions. Representing the Anabaptist-Mennonite family, Mennonite World Conference (MWC) acknowledged their request and granted forgiveness.
The landmark action came on the third day of the eleventh Lutheran World Federation (LWF) assembly, held in Suttgart's Liederhall conference centre. Through the adoption of the statement titled, “Action on the Legacy of Lutheran Persecution of Anabaptists,” Lutherans repented for violent persecution of Anabaptists and for the ways in which Lutheran reformers supported persecutions with theological arguments. Some 480 delegates from around the world acknowledged “the harm that our forebears in the sixteenth century committed to Anabaptists, for forgetting or ignoring this persecution in the intervening centuries, and for all inappropriate, misleading and hurtful portraits of Anabaptists and Mennonites made by Lutheran authors, in both popular and scholarly forms, to the present day.”
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