You missed the point of my post...Ken wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:13 pm I can't search on Plain News because the site it paywalled. But the two articles you cited on Sudan are from 2014 and 2017 so have nothing to do with the current crisis and war that started April 2023: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Su ... 93present)
And the conflict in Myanmar is no longer really about the Rohingya. More recently the military Junta is waging war against the civilian population and tribes in northern Myanmar that are not Rohingya.
1. The reason for posting the links on Plain News is to show that Anabaptists are writing about needs in other countries. CAM does hundreds of current articles. Plain News does just a few. You can go to the CAM website and Kingdom Channels and read about current needs. Lots of articles. And Anabaptists are sharing with many of needs in many countries.
2. The conflict in Myanmar may not be about Rohingya but the Rohingya are in more desperate situation now than they've ever been since leaving Myanmar. So this is an example of not knowing about all the needs in the world. It seems that your focus is on the Junta war rather than the needs of the Rohingya's. So we could say the same thing about you. The point I am making is that there are huge needs in many places and we (you and us) don't have the brain space to care about all of them.
There is more attention to Gaza because of the news media talking about it more. But they are not directing more aid toward Gaza because of this. Tens of thousands of Plain Anabaptists care about needs all over the world and are sharing with them and helping them currently. I don't know of anything Plain Anabaptists are doing for Gazan's right now other than praying.Ken wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:13 pmI'm willing to be proven wrong. But I expect across all segments of American society including plain Anabaptists there is more attention to Gaza than Sudan or Myanmar. And that is largely because we have more of a national connection to Israel than we do either Sudan or Myanmar. Israel is a US ally supported by US tax dollars. My point was simply that Americans do tend to recognize that they have a greater interest in conflicts in which their government and society are more inextricably linked than they do with conflicts in which the United State has little direct connection.
3. I'm trying to tell you that Plain Anabaptists (maybe not the few that you know about) do really care about needs around the world that do not have US involvement.
You are still viewing Anabaptism through a few anecdotes that you are aware of, and a narrow window from the outside.
You don't really understand Anabaptist life and thought.
And Mennonet is not a window into Anabaptist life and thought either.
If you want to understand Anabaptist life and thought, get out of your chair, go immerse yourself in the culture for a decade, and then come back and tell us what you learned.