The community has boomed over the years, with many of the 400,000 residing in Pennsylvania. Political involvement of the Amish is usually minimal, characteristic of their stance of isolation from ...

Dating apps are commonplace in the US, but the Amish live off the grid and stay offline. Two DW reporters traveled to ...

BOONE—In the parking lot of the Cornerstone Summit Church in Boone, a community from rural Pennsylvania donated their time, ...

A social media post makes broad false claims of health advantages for Amish people, wrongly tying them to practices not all ...

The Amish turnout in last month’s election was reported to be “unprecedented,” possibly helping President-elect Donald J.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daniel Beiler, 33, an emergency medical technician and aid volunteer who grew up in a traditional Amish community in Pennsylvania. The ...

LANCASTER, Pa.—The Amish normally avoid the spotlight ... Now, Republican organizers say the outreach to the so-called plain communities, including Amish voters in the rural patchwork of ...

All Amish communities today are offshoots of this ... What is Rumspringa? This Pennsylvania German word which means "running around" describes the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

While Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is home to the oldest Amish communities in the U.S., there's a lot more to Amish Country than meets the eye. From sampling award-winning ice cream at the Turkey Hill ...

All of the claims are either false or unproven. There are records of virus outbreaks and autism in Amish communities. There is no data showing Amish people live longer as a group. They also do not ...