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Mennonite cover-up
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09.03.10A crisis in the Mennonite community“Telling the truth and being honest is a fundamental virtue of Amish [Anabaptist] faith, and he is directly violating the teachings of Jesus if he is lying. That’s a very serious moral offense for them.” Professor Donald Kraybill - NY Times - Sept. 3, 2010 Does the same standard of honesty apply to the Mennonite [Anabaptist] church leaders who refuse to tell the truth about their cover-up of the sexual crimes committed against me inside their Mennonite community? Is being honest "a fundamental virtue" of the Mennonite Brethren faith? Are Mennonite church leaders "violating the teachings ...
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12.05.09National day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against WomenNational Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women December 6 Officially established in 1991, by the Canadian government, as a day of solemn remembrance to mark the anniversary of the murders of 14 beautiful girls who were targeted and slaughtered in the halls of l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. All across Canada flags fly at half mast. We declare, united as a nation, that violence against women is an outrage against our national values. We declare that we, as a nation, will not tolerate – and will work together to end – violence against women and girls. The Mennonite church ...
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07.11.09Mennonite community “shocked” over rapes in Bolivia?The Winnipeg Sun article, “10 years of rapes?” quotes “Hans Warner, an assistant professor of history at the University of Winnipeg and an expert in Mennonite history” as saying “people are just shocked” and that “he has never heard of anything like this occurring in a Mennonite community before,” and also quotes “Rick Fast, director of communications with the Mennonite Central Committee Canada in Winnipeg” saying that “he has not heard much more about the incident than what has been reported in the media and declined to comment on it.” But, according to this article, Hans Schroeder, who is the director ...
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06.24.09Mennonite Cover-up of Incest and Rapereposted Press Conference - Toronto, Canada - December 16, 2008 TORONTO SUN ARTICLE [caption id="attachment_314" align="alignleft" width="208" caption="Anne Klassen 8 years old"][/caption] My maiden name is Anne Klassen. I was raised in a Mennonite Brethren family in Virgil, a predominantly Mennonite town in southern Ontario, just outside of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Every aspect of my life has been dominated and controlled by the attitudes and beliefs of the Mennonite Brethren Church. Today, I am breaking my silence: Throughout my childhood, I was sexually molested, assaulted, sodomized, and raped, hundreds of times, by my father - in the Mennonite kingdom of peace. Mennonites claim that they would never violate their fellow ...
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