Mennonite & Anabaptist

Good news from Haiti: all remaining missionary hostages – 12 of them – have now been released. From the Associated Press: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The remaining members of a U.S. missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed, Haitian police and the church group said Thursday. The spokesman for […]

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What’s the difference between Amish and Mennonites? I previously covered this question about 10 years ago in written form. I’ve now made it into a video. Given all the different Amish and Mennonite groups, I couldn’t go incredibly in-depth on this question. But I think this is a pretty solid overview. I discuss a number […]

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Following up on the Haiti missionary hostage story – some good news, with three hostages being released Sunday, in addition to two released last month: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A religious group based in Ohio announced Monday that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted. The statement […]

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The Anabaptist missionaries kidnapped over two weeks ago in Haiti made national news. The 17 remain in custody, victims of a criminal gang demanding $1 million per person for their release. These kidnappings brought about a flood of reporting in the following days, but I notice there seems to have been little-to-no news over the […]

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It’s the 65th Annual Pennsylvania Relief Sale, and 65 quilts will be sold online today (Saturday April 10) starting at 10 AM. This sale benefits Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). Amish support and participate in MCC disaster relief efforts. Here are some of the quilts. These are not necessarily Amish-made (going by the names, most of […]

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Do the Amish live in Ireland? There are no Old Order Amish communities in Ireland, but Beachy Amish do live there. The question is revisited today by irishcentral.com in an article titled “Did you know Ireland has an Amish community?” The Christian Fellowship of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford is Ireland’s only Amish-Mennonite community. It was […]

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The Young Center at Elizabethtown College provides annual Amish population numbers, with totals for each state, province and so on. But they also have figures for the Old Order Mennonite population, a group similar to Amish in many ways (and in some cases living next door to them as neighbors). According to their latest tallies, […]

Continue Reading The Old Order Mennonite Population (Horse & Buggy): 38,000+ in The US, Canada & Belize

Jim Halverson shares a visit he made back in the fall to the Wakarusa area of northern Indiana. This town lying north of Nappanee is in the vicinity of a small Old Order Mennonite community. Jim made two interesting stops while in the area, as you’ll see below. Instead of trick-or-treating on Halloween, I attended […]

Continue Reading Visiting An Old Order Mennonite Horse Auction – And Casket Shop (22 Photos)

I’ve seen a lot less coverage of the Amish & COVID north of the border, perhaps because their populations are smaller and/or because I’m less plugged in to the Canadian media. It may also be – and this is just speculation – because Canadian media is less likely to publish stories readily identifying the subject […]

Continue Reading Ontario Amish & Mennonites Tied To COVID Increase

Last week we learned the tragic story of Jonathan and Wilma Hochstetler, a Mennonite couple shot in a late-night robbery in Indianapolis, with Wilma losing her life. Jonathan happens to be a cousin to Amish Cook columnist Gloria Yoder – the oldest cousin of 47 on her father’s side, as she describes him. In this […]

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