This year, the number of Amish people in the United States passed the 400,000 mark, according to the Amish Studies Center at Elizabethtown College. The U.S. Amish population now totals 404,575, with ...

(RNS) — Let’s assume, as I did in my last column, that Hasidic groups in New York will take the state to court for attempting to enforce a law requiring their yeshivas to give students an education ...

"Religious literacy is one of the most powerful tools we all have right now to protect our democracy, which is under threat ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don’t need to install septic systems to dispose of their “gray water,” the state Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a ...

WEST CHESTER — An Amish couple who contend that a zoning restriction that prohibits them from keeping a horse on their one-acre property in West Caln violates their religious liberties is awaiting ...

The reaction of the Amish community in Lancaster County, Pa., after Charles Roberts gunned down innocent young schoolgirls on Oct. 2 was striking to many commentators. The Amish quickly conveyed ...

Members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don't need to install septic systems to dispose of their “gray water,” the state Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a long-running religious ...