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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 ...

Anti-vaccine activists seized on a measles outbreak in Seminole, Texas, and turned the small Mennonite city into a battleground between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.

Filadelfia, Paraguay is the capital of the Boqueron Department, one of 17 departments (states) in the country. With a population of around 20,000, it is the center of the Fernheim Colony of ...

They were on their way to the Paraguayan Chaco, where Canadian and European Mennonites, in settlements now decades old, have made the swampy wilderness bear fat crops of cotton and kaffir corn.

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 Mennonite Brethren congregation at Solntsevka baptized 34 people in 2022 and now has 217 adult members meeting in a brand-new sanctuary. A congregation in Isilkul with 15 members at the breakup ...

The Mennonite expansion into Latin America started in the 1920s, when a group of Mennonites left the prairies of Manitoba for the deserts of Northern Mexico, Yann le Polain de Waroux and his ...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — In the middle of the Paraguayan portion of the Upper Parana Atlantic Forest, a paved road leads to the Mbya Indigenous community of Pindo’i. Roads in the area are usually ...

Schwarz said the bulk of deforestation in the Paraguayan Chaco stems from the massive economic and territorial expansion of Mennonite colonies across the region. “The Mennonite system responds to a ...

Before trial, one of the nine defendants fled, reportedly to Paraguay, which like Bolivia has a large Mennonite community. The other eight, including the veterinarian, pleaded not guilty.

It’s a gut punch.” Some liken the treatment to a modern shunning. The Mennonite tool of church control, perceived as non-violent, faded from formal use by the 1970s.