LAS FLORES, Mexico — Franz Kauenhofen was once a pious member of his Mennonite community in this tropical stretch of southern Mexico. He read the Bible, tended to his fields and reared his three ...

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 ...

Simone Pauls with her parents Brian and Nikki Pauls, sister Yiyi and her grandmother visiting KCK's Rainbow Mennonite Church from central Kansas. Photo courtesy of Ruth Harder Attention Kansas City ...

Here, their way of life is simple, with virtually no use of electricity or the internet. The community supports itself through its centuries-old tradition of farming: corn, chili peppers, cotton, ...

At least 327 measles cases have been confirmed in Texas. When the first measles cases were confirmed in western Texas, health officials said the infections primarily affected the Mennonite community.

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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 ...