Pennsylvania’s public schools are not alone in considering banning cellphone use during the school day. Old Order Mennonites want Amish children to stop bringing their cellphones to a combination ...

NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) — For the first time in weeks, kids played in the church cemetery. Nearby, a group of men in their 20s reflected on what it meant to gather again during the pandemic. “Human ...

As a young Catholic coming of age in Eagle Creek, Oregon, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bill Idlewine took German classes and spent some time reading the Martin Luther translation of the ...

MARTINDALE, Pa. - In this bucolic corner of Lancaster County, Allen Hoover can use some modern conveniences approved by his church to help make his machine shop run smoothly: a telephone, a word ...

MARTINDALE, Pa. -- In this bucolic corner of Lancaster County, Allen Hoover can use some modern conveniences approved by his church to help make his machine shop run smoothly: a telephone, a word ...

OSAGE — Attorneys on Friday argued whether Mitchell County’s ordinance barring steel wheels on its hard-surfaced roads represents an unfair burden on Old Order Mennonites. Colin Murphy defended ...

In the late 19th and early 20th century, modernity caught up with the Anabaptists. Under the cover of a dark September night in 1889, three children of Martin W. and Anna Zimmerman crawled into the ...

Around 40,000 Pennsylvania taxpayers will not be able to file taxes next year using a telephone-based system that’s been in place for three decades, presenting a problem for members of Plain Sect ...

CRESCO, Iowa -- Driving tractors with steel wheels is a religious issue for Old Order Groffdale Mennonite Conference members, said Donald Kraybill, a sociologist and senior fellow at Elizabethtown ...

BALTIMORE — At an inner-city stable in one of the grittiest areas of Baltimore, a vanishing breed of urban horsemen prepares for its weekly visit to Pennsylvania Dutch country, where Mennonite farmers ...