Eighty-one high school students from Mennonite schools in Paraguay are training to be “peace servants” at Paraguay 2009, the Mennonite World Conference assembly in July.

Theological educators in Anabaptist-related institutions around the world are being invited to a Consultation on Theological Education just before Mennonite World Conference's fifteenth assembly in Paraguay.

Health care workers from around the world who share a common Anabaptist faith will consult together about their work as Christian medical practitioners at an international gathering in Paraguay.

By late-February, more than 1,500 international registrations had been processed for Mennonite World Conference's 15th global assembly in Asunción, Paraguay, which is to be held from 14-19 July 2009.

The election of former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo as president of Paraguay is a further sign of a left-wing shift in Latin America, according to long-term observers of the region's sometimes volcanic political scene.

A former Catholic bishop who has campaigned vigorously for the poor has won Paraguay's presidential election to end more than 60 years of monopoly rule by the party that once backed vicious dictator General Alfredo Stroessner.

European head of state makes a surprise visit to peace churches in Latin America

A bishop in Paraguay has been suspended by the Vatican after he declared his intention to run as a presidential candidate in the country's 2008 elections.