On Thursday, The New York Times reported that an Amish community in Ohio is mobilizing to create medical supplies for local hospitals. “For centuries, the Amish community has been famously isolated from the hustle of the outside world,”…
Hospitals and clinics in cities across the U.S. have recently established drive-through testing for COVID-19. It’s the strategy that enabled countries like South Korea and Japan to test as many as one out of every…
BLOOMFIELD, IA – Back in mid-March, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds gave a directive that all Iowa schools close for a period of four weeks, a measure taken to help control the spread of the coronavirus that causes…
UNITY, ME – Most Wednesday mornings, the delicious smell of freshly made doughnuts entices crowds of people to the Amish-run Community Market in Unity. But as with so many facets of life in Maine, doughnut…
COLUMBUS, OH – The leader of a breakaway Amish group in Ohio who was sentenced to prison for beard- and hair-cutting attacks will get to to serve the rest of his sentence at home after…
On Friday night, the bishops in a tri-county area of the Amish community had a meeting to discuss COVID-19 and their response to it. Bishop Marvin Kauffman, of District 67-2, said they will abide by…
Ruth Lapp said she always let her babies crawl on the floor when they were young. And when her children complain of a sore throat, she gives them a spoonful of vinegar, a remedy she…
One-room Amish schoolhouses across Lancaster County are closed for the week, yet scores of Amish wedding goers Tuesday filled a big tent on a farm near New Holland. The Amish two days earlier crowded into…
CLEVELAND, OH – Amish bishop Sam Mullet, one of more dozen people convicted in a series of nighttime raids and beard cuttings on his enemies in eastern Ohio, wants out of federal custody because of…
MANHEIM TOWNSHIP, PA — When Earl Hurst bought 100 acres of farmland in rural Lancaster County in 1952, he planned for the fertile fields to help sustain his family. And for a generation, they did…
