While most sway with the global climate, the Amish are a rare community that lives in seclusion and serves as a model of self ...

Most Amish today will not pose for a photograph. Considering it a violation of the Second Commandment, which prohibits the making of "graven images," the Amish believe any physical representation ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/top-ten-faq/ The author of several books about the Amish and other Anabaptist groups, Donald B. Kraybill is a ...

One of the elders involved in that initial meeting says they agreed to Issa’s plan because they wanted to keep their community together on Amish land. The 77-year-old – who did not want to be ...

The Amish argued that the requirement infringed on their religious ... comment that the lower court “plainly misinterpreted and misapplied the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act,” ...