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Mennonite

Member of a Protestant Christian sect, originating as part of the Anabaptist movement in Zürich, Switzerland in 1523. Members refuse to hold civil office or do military service, and reject infant baptism. They were named Mennonites after Menno Simons (1496–1559), leader of a group in Holland.

Persecution drove other groups to Russia and North America.

Some Swiss and German Mennonites settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1683. From there they eventually spread to the Midwest and Canada. Additional groups went to the Great Plains and to the Prairie Provinces of Canada after Russia began military conscription in the 1880s. Of the 600,000 Mennonites in the world, some 250,000 are in the USA.
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More than 100 Mennonite pastors and lay ministers released a letter in April to the Mennonite Church USA, calling for the denomination to extend full welcome to gay and lesbian people and inviting the church to confess its exclusion.
Mennonites call church to confess by Sojourners Magazine
The Mennonite Church there was alarmed to discover that a low IQ offender was going to be released into their midst with no support.
Virtuous circles by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
During his time at Stifling Avenue Mennonite Church he met and later married Ruby Cressman.
Obituaries by Presbyterian Record
 
 
 
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