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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...