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The headline has been edited for length purposes.SEMINOLE — When Anita Froese’s middle child came down with fatigue, body ...

A new locally produced documentary made by James Madison University and Eastern Mennonite University graduates that tells the ...

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Survival is at stake as Mennonite colonies’ illegal soy farms threaten the livelihood of Maya beekeepers. Maya beekeepers in the Mexican state of Campeche say their bees are dying and honey harvests ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On February 25, a child died in Seminole, Texas, in a community of Mennonites. The cause was measles. John Dueck, the editor of ...

LUNDA NORTE, Angola — Not long ago, the field where Charlotte Itala picks corn with her friends was a hunting ground where people in her small African village caught antelope, boar and forest buffalo.

Eight families of Mennonites have moved from Mexico to Angola, in southern Africa, raising fears among some Angolans that they will be squeezed out by the new arrivals. Eight families of Mennonites ...

It was a question staff at Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children were forced to answer when they treated Gerhard Friessen Fehr. The 15-year-old boy lives in an isolated colony of German Mennonites ...

PINE GROVE — The congregation at Hidden River Mennonite Church will “walk together” in its new home, visiting minister Howard Horst said during a recent service. Founded in 2022 in a former hardware ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Peter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking lot of a Mennonite church on the outskirts of Seminole, a ...

As the number of identified measles cases continues to grow in West Texas, one isolated religious community has been hit particularly hard: the Mennonites. Who are they, and why are they so vulnerable ...