Contents
BORDERS AND BRIDGES
Mennonite Witness in a Religiously Diverse World

Foreword by Stanley W. Green 7
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction: Meeting Jesus in the Borderlands,
by Alain Epp Weaver 11

1 Indonesia: Living in the Mystery  17
Jeanne Jantzi

2 A Fountain Flowing Deep and Wide:
A Journey with Catholicism in Latin America  31
Susan Classen

3 Christian-Muslim Relations in Nigeria: Mennonite Central Committee and Multi-faith Peacebuilding  43
Gopar Tapkida

4 Reflections on Mennonite Interfaith Work in Somalia  57
Chantal Logan

5 Interfaith Encounters in the Hindu Kingdom:
Mennonites in Nepal  66
Edgar Metzler

6 Interfaith Bridge Building, Peacebuilding,
and Development: Learnings from Palestine-Israel  92
Alain Epp Weaver

7 A Dialogue of Civilizations:
The Encounter Between Iranian Shi’ites
and North American Mennonites  105
Roy Hange

8 An In-grafting: Mennonite Central Committee
and the Churches of Egypt and Syria  117
Eldon Wagler and Jane-Emile Wagler

9 Mennonite Experience with Interfaith and
Ecumenical Work in Southeast Europe  132
Randall Puljek-Shank

10 Who Owns Jesus?
Interfaith Connections in India  150
Jon Rudy

11 A Theology of Interfaith Bridge Building  160
Peter Dula

Appendix: Interfaith Bridge Building, MCC International
Program Department “Key Initiative,” 2006-2010,
by Bob Herr and Judy Zimmerman Herr 171

Subject Index 177
The Contributors 183