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Mennonites students take part in a class outside the Mennonite museum in Filadelfia, Paraguay, on November 3, 2012. Mennonites this year celebrate the 85th anniversary of their first immagration to ...

The “new Panama Canal” – that’s how some are hailing a highway now under construction in South America that spans the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Bi-Oceanic Corridor cuts through ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The scorched lowlands of the Paraguayan Chaco, once known as “the green hell”, are hardly the most welcoming ...

This progressive Mennonite congregation has departed in more ways than these from the customs of their forebears. Mennonites have lived in Paraguay since the 1920s, mostly in the miserably hot Chaco, ...

A Paraguayan guerrilla group kidnapped on Friday a young Mennonite farmer in central Paraguay in an area where similar abductions have taken place. Bernard Blatz Friessen, 22, was driving a pickup ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — The Paraguayan People’s Army guerrilla group is asking for a $700,000 ransom to release a kidnapped Mennonite man. Franz Wiebe Boschman was kidnapped Wednesday night as he ...