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, ...

toiling the land in the name of their Christian faith. Their agricultural prowess was once welcomed here. Mennonites first arrived here from Canada in the early 1900s, in search of land and isolation.

It’s been nearly a century since pacifist Mennonites fled Russia for the plains of western Canada, immigrating later to northern Mexico to turn some of its arid high desert into model productive farms ...

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ASCENCION, Mexico, May 19 (Reuters) - The Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Mexico, can trace its roots as far back as a century ago, when the first such settlers came seeking ideal farming land, ...