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Tag: Mennonites

  • A new faith in politics

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    Chicago Tribune: A new faith in politics Young Mennonites join world of politics GOSHEN, Ind.—At the east end of the giant Wal-Mart parking lot in this northern Indiana town of about 32,000, there's a metal-roofed building accommodating as many as 20 horse-drawn buggies. People in plain dress—flat black hats, white bonnets—can be seen around town.…

  • Mennonites and Mammonites…in Paraguay

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    The Weekly Standard: Mennonites and Mammonites…in Paraguay …This progressive Mennonite congregation has departed in more ways than these from the customs of their forebears. Mennonites have lived in Paraguay since the 1920s, mostly in the miserably hot Chaco, a region that was barely inhabited before they arrived, and indeed barely inhabited today. For the first…