The sect's total current population is about 308,000 and has grown about 18 percent over the past five years, according to an ongoing population survey by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist ...

HARRISBURG, Pa.-The Amish branched out last year with new settlements in Bolivia, Argentina and Canada as their numbers continued to grow and a high percentage of young people opted to remain within ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The Amish branched out last year with new settlements in Bolivia, Argentina and Canada as their numbers continued to grow and a high percentage of young people opted to remain ...

Back in 1973, Sam Stoltzfus helped prepare a directory for the Lancaster Amish settlement. RELATED: How do researchers count the Amish? It listed 50 church districts. The one for 1995 listed 100 ...

Both the Amish and Mennonites descended from the Anabaptist movement (belief in adult baptism) of the early 1500s. In 1693, a divide among Swiss Anabaptists led by Jakob Ammann led to the creation of ...

New research indicates that north America’s technology-shy Amish people have an obesity rate of only 4% despite a diet of meat, potatoes, pies and cakes. The study on Amish in Ontario, Canada, ...

There are large Amish communities in Ohio and Pennsylvania - two key battleground states The Amish are a conservative, Christian group of people who don't watch TV, drive cars or use the internet - ...

Madison is getting a new wedding venue imported from Canada.Officials said they actually ordered an Amish barn from Canada and had it shipped to Mississippi.Workers were out there Wednesday ...

The idea of “Rumspringa” has a specific spot in the American imagination. A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away from ...