(RNS) — Sofia Samatar intertwines her story with the stories of the German Mennonites who traveled to Uzbekistan in the 1800s to fulfill an apocalyptic prophecy. (RNS) — In the late 1800s, a group of ...

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 ...

I’ve wandered through church traditions the way my family has migrated across the geography of the Americas. My mother came from Costa Rica, my father from Colombia. My sister and I were born in Los ...

As the vaccination rollout continues, Pennsylvania health care providers are turning their attention to harder to reach populations, including Amish and conservative Mennonite communities living in ...

The 15th Annual Mennonite Central Committee Comforter Blitz draws people to Yoder from Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota and across Kansas to help tie and finish comforters that will be donated to people who ...

“How can you be half a religion?” The question comes to Sofia Samatar in a way that characterizes her memoir of a pilgrimage across Uzbekistan in search of a lost colony of Mennonites: through several ...

They are missionaries in our midst. Martin and Mabel Hurst have come to Connecticut armed with nothing more than Bible tracts and a desire to share their faith in a place where most people have never ...

At 75 years old, Ken Hosler is new to political advocacy. The Lancaster city resident said this new stage in his life started ...