Experts detail the benefits of swimming, from strengthening your muscles to reducing inflammation and boosting your mental health—and how to get started. Swimming offers a low-impact exercise with ...

Survival is at stake as Mennonite colonies’ illegal soy farms threaten the livelihood of Maya beekeepers. Maya beekeepers in the Mexican state of Campeche say their bees are dying and honey harvests ...

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When I was 10, my family and I left our Mennonite community in Mexico and moved to Ontario. I didn’t understand any English when we first arrived—I only spoke Low German—and while I picked the ...

LUNDA NORTE, Angola — Not long ago, the field where Charlotte Itala picks corn with her friends was a hunting ground where people in her small African village caught antelope, boar and forest buffalo.

1:14 Camp staff urge parents to ensure children up to date on measles immunizations ahead of summer Catalina Friesen got a call one night in February from one of her clients, a Low German-speaking ...

In Masisea, a remote settlement near Peru's border with Brazil accessible only by boat along a tributary of the Amazon or over dirt paths, members of the austere Protestant sect are under siege. Here, ...

Masisea (Peru) (AFP) – When they saw men with arrows and machetes bearing down on them, Daniel Braun and other Mennonites living in the Peruvian Amazon fled across rice paddies, some of their barns ...

At least 327 measles cases have been confirmed in Texas. When the first measles cases were confirmed in western Texas, health officials said the infections primarily affected the Mennonite community.

2:48 Health Matters: Measles cases skyrocket across Canada An ongoing outbreak of measles in Ontario can be linked back to a “large gathering” last fall in New Brunswick’s Mennonite community, ...

A measles outbreak that has infected scores of unvaccinated children in Southwestern Ontario reportedly had its start at a Mennonite religious gathering in New Brunswick last year. In a March 7 letter ...

PINE GROVE — The congregation at Hidden River Mennonite Church will “walk together” in its new home, visiting minister Howard Horst said during a recent service. Founded in 2022 in a former hardware ...