The sect's total current population is about 308,000 and has grown about 18 percent over the past five years, according to an ongoing population survey by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Months after the first Amish families in Manitoba started arriving in the town of Vita, the sight of their horse-drawn buggies ...

HARRISBURG, Pa.-The Amish branched out last year with new settlements in Bolivia, Argentina and Canada as their numbers continued to grow and a high percentage of young people opted to remain within ...

Back in 1973, Sam Stoltzfus helped prepare a directory for the Lancaster Amish settlement. RELATED: How do researchers count the Amish? It listed 50 church districts. The one for 1995 listed 100 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The Amish branched out last year with new settlements in Bolivia, Argentina and Canada as their numbers continued to grow and a high percentage of young people opted to remain ...

Islanders are already seeing the signs — literally. Several Amish families are settling on P.E.I. over the coming months, and the P.E.I. government has posted signage along rural roads encouraging ...

Two groups of Amish people have begun arriving in Summerville, P.E.I., near Montague, and in the Dundas area, lured by affordable farm land. "It was four o'clock this morning when we arrived, and they ...

Both the Amish and Mennonites descended from the Anabaptist movement (belief in adult baptism) of the early 1500s. In 1693, a divide among Swiss Anabaptists led by Jakob Ammann led to the creation of ...

New research indicates that north America’s technology-shy Amish people have an obesity rate of only 4% despite a diet of meat, potatoes, pies and cakes. The study on Amish in Ontario, Canada, ...