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Rural Pennsylvania Clinic Treats Amish, Mennonite Children Who Have SMA
| January 3, 2019STRASBURG, PA - Visitors to the Clinic for Special Children (CSC) just outside Strasburg, Pennsylvania, might be forgiven for thinking they’ve made a wrong turn.
Amid ongoing dairy farm crisis, Amish and other farmers dropped at the beginning of the year find new milk buyers
| January 3, 2019Amish dairy farmers who lost their milk buyer the first day of the new year have been given another chance to maintain the livelihood they've held for generations.
Horse euthanized after driver hits Amish buggy in Herkimer County
| January 2, 2019NEWPORT, N.Y. — New York State Police in Herkimer responded around 8 a.m. Wednesday to reports of a hit-and-run crash on Summit Road in the town of Newport.
Police seek driver who struck Amish horse and buggy in Herkimer County
| January 2, 2019TOWN OF NEWPORT, N.Y. - New York State Police are investigating a crash involving a horse and buggy in Herkimer County.
Plan to make roads wider, safer in Ohio county home to Amish
| December 26, 2018MIDDLEFIELD, OH — Work to widen roads and make other safety improvements is planned in an area of Ohio’s Amish country plagued by crashes resulting in injuries, according to federal and state officials.
Amish dairy farmers at risk of losing their living and way of life as their buyer drops their milk
| December 21, 2018A group of Amish dairy farmers have lost their milk buyer, putting their livelihood and way of life at risk, as a crisis deepens in America’s dairyland.
‘Our faith will be lost if we adopt technology’: can the Amish resist the modern world?
| December 16, 2018Daniel Weaver does not vote, drive a car, read a paper, listen to music, watch sport of any kind, own a mobile phone or use a computer. But as we eat the food grown in his garden outside the window, he confesses that he did once see a film. He refuses to disclose what, brushing aside my questions as we sit talking around the dining table with his wife, five of his eight children and one grandson. “I am not proud of that,” he says. “I went against my parents’ wishes.”
Fatal fire that hurt 10 in Amish family is traced to lamp
| December 14, 2018MIDDLEFIELD, OH - Fire officials in northeastern Ohio say a blaze that killed a 2-year-old child and injured 10 members of an Amish family began with a lamp that used liquid fuel.
The Amish don't believe in insurance. Here's how they help pay everybody's medical bills
| December 13, 2018As an auctioneer pressed his Hartly audience toward the highest bid possible for a set of dishes, an Amish man watched from the side of the tent, his arms crossed as he leaned on a tent pole.
Amish families are working with doctors and researchers to save a young girl's life
| December 13, 2018Thelma Miller feels the pop, but tells herself not to worry. She’s 31 weeks pregnant, too early for her water to break. But this baby is coming nonetheless.
Lovina’s friend Ruth offers sneak peek into Amish wedding preparations
| December 12, 2018This week I helped with preparations for the wedding for Lovina’s niece Emma. As an outsider, I am impressed by how beautifully orchestrated these events are. Family, neighbors and the church community all pitch in to help with the work of hosting weddings.
Oaklawn in Goshen also a place for the Amish to seek help
| December 3, 2018GOSHEN, IN — Dale Raber sees a range of mental health needs as a therapist at Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, but his clients all have one thing in common: They’re all Amish.
Weeklong Trial Continues for Fillmore Amish
| December 1, 2018PRESTON, MN — For the last week, four members of the Swartzentruber Amish community have listened to arguments on whether their religious beliefs would allow them to not comply with state wastewater regulations.
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Velda Miller
| November 30, 2018I was born and raised in the countryside of LaGrange, Indiana. For the first twenty years of my life, I lived with my parents in an Amish community. My home situation was not the most ideal, and I struggled with life for a good portion of my growing up years. I quickly learned that I had to fight for myself in order to survive; and all though I was a pretty “good” kid, my heart and soul was anything but good. I hated life, myself, my parents, and especially God. Depression and darkness were some my closest friends.
Saudi entrepreneur and Amish farmers bring camel milk to US
| November 25, 2018When Walid Abdul-Wahab met the Amish and Mennonite farmers he now works with, they didn't suspect he was a Muslim from Saudi Arabia. "They assumed I was Amish because of my beard," he says.
Ohio house fire kills 2-year-old, injures 10 members of Amish family
| November 22, 2018MIDDLEFIELD TWP, OH - A fire swept through an Ohio home on Wednesday night, killing a two-year-old and injuring 10 members of an Amish family, officials said.
Troopers looking for hit-skip driver involved in Amish buggy crash
| November 21, 2018PAINT TOWNSHIP, OH - Authorities are searching for a driver who struck an Amish buggy and then drove off following a crash in Holmes County on Tuesday afternoon.
As Amish populations grow, south county school districts dwindle
| November 19, 2018ORWELL, OH - Grand Valley Superintendent William Nye said Orwell is getting close to being the next Middlefield when it comes to the size of Amish settlements.
Amish farmer seeks pardon by Trump for mislabeling products
| November 15, 2018An Amish farmer in Kentucky is asking President Donald Trump for a pardon after he was sentenced to six years in federal prison for mislabeling homemade herbal products.
Preview set for documentary on famous 1965 'Amish Incident'
| November 10, 2018WATERLOO – Gene Raffensperger stood next to the big yellow school bus in front of a country school and watched as Amish schoolchildren came out of the school. They were crying as their mothers embraced them, and then someone yelled “Run.”
Going to the police was the hardest thing: Amish woman sexually assaulted by her bishop fled the strict community
| November 8, 2018It was supposed to be a new start when Misty Griffin - just shy of 19 - went to live with the strict Amish community. After an isolated childhood on a remote mountain farm – raised in Amish ways and dress since she was around aged six – Griffin was initially hopeful. However, her new community’s emphasis on forgiveness, she says, meant they allowed a convicted sex offender to live nearby and the way they dealt with molestation and rape was up to six weeks of ‘shunning,’ what they called placed in the Bann.
What Amish have to teach us
| October 31, 2018LANCASTER, PA - I live in Lancaster County, Pa., home to one of the largest Old Order Amish communities in the world. My work brings me into regular contact with the Amish.
Amish outreach: GOP, Trump supporters energize untapped conservative constituency
| October 31, 2018A campaign rally with Vice President Mike Pence in central Ohio on Wednesday included two unlikely voters, farmers Levi Miller and Ben Hostetler, who are part of a determined effort by Trump supporters and the Republican Party to get members of the conservative Amish and Mennonite communities to the polls.
THP Lawrenceburg sounds the alarm after surge in Amish buggy crashes
| October 31, 2018LAWRENCEBURG, TN - A surge in crashes with Amish buggies in Lawrence County has the Tennessee Highway Patrol sending out a serious warning for drivers.
Amish Adventists plant seeds of hope at West Salem Mission
| October 30, 2018One of the highlights of the recent 2018 Annual Council was Andy Weaver’s incredible testimony shared with World Church delegates on Monday, October 15
Amish Families Settle In Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom
| October 27, 2018VERMONT - Vermont Digger reports that 10 Amish families have moved to Vermont’s quaint and pastoral Northeast Kingdom over the last two years. The paper says the families are “loosely related” and have come from Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Former officer charged in Mecosta Co. homicide
| October 22, 2018BIG RAPIDS, MI - Mental illness: that’s what the family of a former law enforcement officer says was the motive for murdering a dad of seven.
On a Mission in the Philippines
| October 21, 2018Two members of the River of Life Church are about to embark on an exciting mission trip to the Philippines.
Meet Lloyd Smucker: America's first Amish-born congressman seeking a second term on tax cuts and conservative record
| October 21, 2018WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker is hustling down a dizzying spiral staircase in the United States Capitol. He’s cutting through the cavernous basement hallways and around security guards, up more stairs and down others.
Meet Lloyd Smucker: America's first Amish-born congressman seeking a second term on tax cuts and conservative record
| October 21, 2018WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker is hustling down a dizzying spiral staircase in the United States Capitol. He’s cutting through the cavernous basement hallways and around security guards, up more stairs and down others.