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An outbreak of the disease was swelling in Gaines County, a rural community with one of the lowest childhood vaccination rates in the country. For two weeks, lines of families had snaked around the ...

What they are doing is a crime against the environment," Indigenous leader Abner Ancon, 54, told AFP. Horse-drawn carriages The Mennonites arrived in Peru from neighboring Bolivia.

Bolivia has seen the fastest growth of any Latin American country and now has 120 Mennonite colonies, while in the past decade a half dozen settlements, including Wanderland, have emerged in Peru ...

Mennonites in Bolivia largely reject modern conveniences and amenities, like cars and electricity. A Mennonite family in a horse-drawn cart in Bolivia, as seen in 1991.

In his paper, le Polain identified 65 Mennonite colonies in Mexico, the first Latin American country to open its borders to the group, and even more colonies (90) in Bolivia, where the first ...

A TREE stands alone on land now ready for planting soya seeds, near Santa Cruz, Bolivia (pictured above). It is a symbol of the country’s growing deforestation crisis. These are among the ...

Eight men from a Mennonite farming community in eastern Bolivia have been accused of raping dozens of females at the settlement. A prosecutor has indicated at least one victim was an underage girl ...

Low German Mennonites were formed as an offshoot of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century, originally migrating from Eastern Europe and Russia to Canada and other countries in North and ...

Mennonites first began settling in Bolivia in the 1950s, primarily in the department of Santa Cruz. Today, Bolivia’s Mennonite population numbers around 150,000, most of whom are involved in ...