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 ...

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 ...

Months after public health officials say they caused the nation’s largest measles surge in 30 years, some West Texas ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...