While most sway with the global climate, the Amish are a rare community that lives in seclusion and serves as a model of self ...

A community relying on agriculture inherently requires land – and the Amish have shown they are willing to travel to acquire it. “There were farms being farmed by 70, sometimes 80-year-old ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/top-ten-faq/ The author of several books about the Amish and other Anabaptist groups, Donald B. Kraybill is a ...

Most Amish today will not pose for a photograph. Considering it a violation of the Second Commandment, which prohibits the making of "graven images," the Amish believe any physical representation ...

It also strives to live in peaceful coexistence with the land, other people and other faiths.' In a YouTube video, Kirsten ...

One of the elders involved in that initial meeting says they agreed to Issa’s plan because they wanted to keep their community together on Amish land. The 77-year-old – who did not want to be ...

The Amish argued that the requirement infringed on their religious ... comment that the lower court “plainly misinterpreted and misapplied the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act,” ...