Mennonites are part of the wider Anabaptist family of churches, which emerged in 1525 as the radical wing of the Protestant Reformation in Central Europe. Other Anabaptist branches today include the ...

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 ...

Pastor Jesse Dunnigans (left) is the minister at Bethesda Mennonite Church in North St. Louis, and Pastor Samuel Voth Schrag (right) is minister at St. Louis Mennonite Fellowship in south St. Louis.

(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 ...

A special train of ten day coaches pulled into Manhattan’s Pennsylvania Station one afternoon last week. Out of it trooped 400 men, women and children. The women wore plain, straight dresses with ...

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On Wednesday, a jury in Arizona found U.S. Air Force airman Mark Gooch guilty of kidnapping and first-degree murder in Sasha Krause’s killing. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Sasha Krause loved words. She ...

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 ...