Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Months after the first Amish families in Manitoba started arriving in the town of Vita, the sight of their horse-drawn buggies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...