At the heart of the Mennonite religion, you’ll find an unwavering commitment to nonresistance that has endured five centuries of oppression and violent atrocities. This work is a photographic ode to ...

María, Elizabet and Katherina are the only women to escape from the oldest Mennonite community in the South American country.

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 ...

Since the 1800s, Old Colony Mennonites have conducted their lives far away from the rest of society. The most insular and conservative sect of the Mennonite Church, they reject mainstream schooling, ...

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 ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X As a boy growing up in Parkville, Jeremiah Fox saw Dec. 25 the way millions of American children see it. He loved ...

CUAUHTEMOC, Mexico — As a child in his Mennonite settlement in northern Mexico, Jacobo attended a one-room school, where he did his lessons in chalk on a small black slate, and barely learned to read ...

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 ...