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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madison is getting a new wedding venue imported from Canada.Officials said they actually ordered an Amish barn from Canada and had it shipped to Mississippi.Workers were out there Wednesday ...

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, ...

The practice of living close to barns gives the air in Amish homes a permanent gestalt of cow — the secret to their robust immune systems You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...