- The former owners of a nuclear processing plant in Pennsylvania were ordered by a federal jury to pay $36.5 million in damages for a rash of cancer cases near the plant. More than 350 of the 1,895 people in the town had some type of cancer, compared with just 28 cases in a larger town a few miles away.
- Rev. Kay Ward of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was elected this summer the world’s first woman bishop in the Moravian Church. The church first called for the ordination of women in 1957.
- The Mennonite Central Committee sent a delegation in early September to visit churches in Cuba and to "understand firsthand the reality of life in Cuba and how people are affected by U.S. policies."
This appears in the November-December 1998 issue of Sojourners
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