After going for her driving test when she was 18, Alisha realised that life outside of the community wasn’t what she was told ...
She speaks softly in her native Low German - a dialect hundreds of years old. Most Mennonite women and girls do not speak Spanish. Often confined to work in the home and on the farm from the age ...
Mennonite women wear dresses and head coverings, while Mennonite men wear plain clothes for simple living. The Amish Church and Mennonite Church are both Christian denominations that stem from the ...
About a decade ago, a group of Mennonite men in Bolivia were arrested for repeatedly drugging and raping over 100 women and girls in their colony. Within the community, they’d blamed the attacks ...
Samatar observes that the stories that shape our identities remain impervious to historical accuracy. For example, the majority of the world’s Mennonites are people of color, and the most ...
“We’ve played the last three years with no more than three subs,” Lancaster Mennonite head coach Sean Boer said. “These girls know this. They’re used to this. Now, 110 minutes, we never ...