The name of this tiny Amish-Mennonite colony, set amid the red-dirt soybean fields and palm trees of rural eastern Paraguay, is Light and Hope. But for the last few years, there has been little of ...

Mennonite Christians settled in Paraguay in the first half of the 20th Century and have more recently been joined by Mennonites fleeing drug-related violence in Mexico.

Fast Forward Mennonite Sect Wrestles Publicy With Its Nazi Ties In Paraguay Image by Getty Images By Daniel J. Solomon March 17, 2017 ...

Nearly 130 families of Mennonite settlers from the rural, central department of San Pedro fled to the western department of Boquerón in order to escape threats from the Paraguayan People’s Army ...

Paraguayan People's Army, EPP, a pro Marxist group with Catholic roots operational in the region. A Paraguayan guerrilla group kidnapped on Friday a young Mennonite farmer in central Paraguay in ...

Huge tracts of the Chaco forest in Paraguay are being razed by local Mennonite farmers and Brazilian cattle ranchers amid a surge in the global demand for beef. March 27, 2012 — 12.11pm ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — The Paraguayan People's Army guerrilla group is asking for a $700,000 ransom to release a kidnapped Mennonite man.

But the scrubby, stunted forests were good enough for the first Mennonite settlers fleeing communist Russia in the late 1920s in search of a place to practice their religion in peace.

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — The Paraguayan People’s Army guerrilla group is asking for a $700,000 ransom to release a kidnapped Mennonite man. Franz Wiebe Boschman was kidnapped Wednesday night ...