I was reporting on an education conference in a downtown Washington hotel when I noticed TV monitors in the lobby were turned on to CNN and Fox news and broadcasters were reporting on an attack on a ...

A Republican state senator from upstate New York wants to make it easier for members of the Amish and Mennonite communities to buy a gun. Earlier this week, Senator Catharine Young introduced ...

As survivors of child sexual abuse gathered on the front steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol to advocate for the passage of legislation allowing legal action against sexual abusers, Rep. Mark Rozzi, ...

Jun. 30—CROGHAN — The Adirondack Mennonite Heritage Association (AMHA) is hosting the 33rd Zwanzigstein (twenty stones) Fest of "...strangers and pilgrims on the earth." Hebrews 11:13b from 10 a.m. to ...

LEOLA, Pa. (AP) — Clotheslines with billowing linens and long dresses are a common sight on the off-grid farms of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, home to the nation's largest Amish settlement. For ...

Knowing the nuances of the flavors only comes from living and growing up inside each group. But like ice cream, there are some differences you can tell just by sight. The following list describes the ...

A friend recently observed that many people don’t know the difference between Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites. Yes, there are Old Order Mennonites, and we have some of them as well as Amish ...

Let me make one thing clear from the start. When Grumpy and I set out to discover more about the Amish and Mennonites, we were never intending to live like them. It’s just I always find it more fun to ...

Raised in a strict Reformed Mennonite community in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Bear was trained to become a wife, mother — and little else. "My mother wore long dark dresses and a white bonnet," the ...

Lyndonville, according to Floyd Yoder, is what the Amish call a "horse-and-buggy town." It's perfect, many say, for a population of folks who actually drive around in them. "It's a small town, not too ...

A local health official said the Amish and Mennonite communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have reached herd immunity from the coronavirus. Allen Hoover, the administrator of the Parochial ...