Mennonites vs. landless peasants Eviction: A Paraguayan colony of Mennonites with roots in Pennsylvania are being threatened by land-hungry peasants trying to evict them from their farms.

Paraguayan politics had been a dirty bath for years, and the Mennonites thought they could be the bar of soap in its tub. “There was suspicion,” admits Gerard Ratzliff, a Mennonite historian ...

A Paraguayan guerrilla group has freed two Mennonite men it had been holding hostage for five months. The two were released after their families paid a ransom and handed over food to local ...

A senior Paraguayan government official has been tricked into signing a “proclamation” with representatives of a fictitious country led by a fugitive who claims to have X-Ray vision and the ...

COLONIA LUZ Y ESPERANZA, Paraguay — The name of this Mennonite colony, set amid the red-dirt soybean fields and palm trees of rural eastern Paraguay, is Light and Hope. But there is little of… ...