MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said Thursday it has reached a preliminary agreement with Mennonites living in southern Mexico to stop cutting down low jungle to plant crops. The Environment ...

toiling the land in the name of their Christian faith. Their agricultural prowess was once welcomed here. Mennonites first arrived here from Canada in the early 1900s, in search of land and isolation.

Mennonites in Mexico are promoting a bright new Christmas tradition – one born of somber origins. The “Parade of Lights,” a nighttime procession of decorated vehicles and holiday party held this year ...

MEXICO CITY — It’s been nearly a century since pacifist Mennonites fled Russia for the plains of western Canada, immigrating later to northern Mexico to turn some of its arid high desert into model ...

Viewed through the smudged windows of a tour bus, the Mennonites of Northern Mexico appear to be a people strangely out of place and out of time, as if the actors in a movie had shown up on the wrong ...

ASCENCION, Mexico, May 19 (Reuters) - The Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Mexico, can trace its roots as far back as a century ago, when the first such settlers came seeking ideal farming land, ...

CUAUHTEMOC, Mexico — Every evening, Mennonite families in the plains of northern Mexico gather around their radios in their stark, adobe farmhouses and tune into Blanca Peters' community newscast. The ...

A few years ago, my girlfriend and I visited the beautiful city of Mérida in the Yucatán. We were surprised to see a sentence in our guidebook warning us to be on the lookout for Mennonites pedaling ...

It’s been nearly a century since pacifist Mennonites fled Russia for the plains of western Canada, immigrating later to northern Mexico to turn some of its arid high desert into model productive farms ...

Two young Mennonite women with traditional long dresses are seen in Cuauhtemoc, a city in Mexico's Chihuahua state. MCT It’s been nearly a century since pacifist Mennonites fled Russia for the plains ...