(RNS) — Sofia Samatar intertwines her story with the stories of the German Mennonites who traveled to Uzbekistan in the 1800s to fulfill an apocalyptic prophecy. (RNS) — In the late 1800s, a group of ...

HUNTSVILLE, MO. — The grocer, the butcher, a cabinet maker and several other members of the town's Mennonite community are planning to move to Arkansas over a Missouri requirement that all drivers be ...

When God-fearing Mennonite farmers saw strange crops growing in Isaak Enns’ cornfields, they sought answers from the local authorities. The response sent them running for their Bibles. Enns was ...

Ellen Koontz, a Kansas contract schoolteacher, is asking a federal judge to re-affirm the anti-Jewish boycott campaign begun by Adolf Hitler on April 1, 1933, openly adopted shortly thereafter by the ...

The Mennonite population being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas is part of a larger, loosely affiliated group of churches worldwide with varied beliefs and leadership structures — and with ...

In this Monday, May 4, 2020, photo, Aaron Hurst, 67, left, wears a mask as he runs his AAA Farm Supply business in Terre Hill, Pa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) — For the first ...

GRANDVIEW, Texas -- When Evangeline Yoder returns home from school to her family's cozy mobile home, it's quiet except for the sounds of a clock chime and of her 3-year-old brother riding his rocking ...

Pacifism is a fundamental part of the Mennonite tradition, but in Mexico, 60,000 farmers of that faith have recently found themselves in a rather surprising Mad Max-esque scenario. Well, there’s no ...

A convoy of Canadian truckers arrived in Ottawa, the country's capital, on Jan. 29 to protest the government's recent mandate that requires cross-border truck drivers to show proof of vaccination.

After a months-long bitter dispute and miscommunications, Maxatawny Township officials and five Mennonite families agreed Monday to set aside their differences. The Mennonites had faced $300,000 worth ...

Mennonites are, in fact, a wing of the of the Anabaptist movement that eschews baptism at birth in favor of free-will, adult, belief-based baptism. Sixteenth century Dutch Catholic priest Menno Simons ...