In 1693, Amish people formed their own branch of Anabaptism in Switzerland and eastern France under the leadership of their founder Jakob Ammann. All Amish communities today are offshoots of this ...

MOUNT HOPE, Ohio—At age 32, Ryan Hershberger has achieved success far beyond his modest roots. He launched a furniture business with two cousins a decade ago and now owns a company that ...

We are in Lancaster County. Amish people live here and read your newspaper. Many of them do not have TVs, computers, the internet or online access to LNP | LancasterOnline. The three main reasons ...

With faith at the core of Amish life, they also appreciate Trump’s own focus on religious liberty. That focus, he said, also mirrors many other conservatives’ priorities outside Lancaster.

distinctive in traditional Amish clothing, approached the stand and signed up for voter registration papers. “My heart just led me to it,” said Edna Stoltzfus, 76, before returning to her own ...

whose district includes Lancaster County, at the heart of the nation’s largest Amish population. Smucker, whose own family background ... at his St. Paul apartment building, another resident ...

Nearly a dozen members of an Amish family in Pennsylvania were hospitalized on Friday after eating toxic mushrooms, according to local reports and first responders. Emergency medical personnel ...

They run their own ... Most Amish don’t vote. There is no hard-and-fast rule against it: instruction varies from community to community. To the Amish, the highest priority is building a heavenly ...

Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., whose district includes Lancaster County, at the heart of the nation’s largest Amish population. Smucker, whose own family background is Amish, predicted a dramatic ...