Devon Toews' family originates from the Chortitza Mennonite settlement in Ukraine. His grandfather, John, was born in the settlement before the family migrated. They moved to Paraguay in 1948 and ...

Margaret Krause (nee Rempel) was born in Paraguay in the Mennonite colony of Fernheim. She was the fourth surviving child of Jakob and Helena (nee Vogt) Rempel. Margaret's father died when she was ...

He served with Mennonite Central Committee in Paraguay for three years, then taught at Bluffton College for thirty years. Maurice was a member of First Mennonite Church in Bluffton. He enjoyed camping ...

A Mennonite teenager, Franz Weiber who was abducted ... EPP has been operating in Paraguay's hinterland for several years, and apparently are mainly young university students, ex religious ...

Between January and October 2022, Mongabay Latam reported that Global Forest Watch identified 684 deforestation alerts in the Pindo’i Indigenous reserve in Paraguay via satellite, despite laws ...

One story highlighted in the exhibit shows a moment of revelation for Marguerite as she spoke with two Mennonite women from the community that migrated to Mexico and Paraguay in the 1920s. These women ...

Retaining their traditional clothing, strong Christian faith, and German dialect, Mennonite families arrived in Bolivia in the 1950s from Paraguay and Canada. Their communities’ expansion began in the ...

It’s about six hours by car from the Mennonite settlement of Philadelphia — the largest ... On their titled reserves and national parks in Paraguay, the Ayoreo people are besieged by the noise of ...

A massive new road across Paraguay threatens a fragile eco-system. Will its impact on the indigenous and Mennonite communities - and the environment - be worth the benefits? Show more The Gran ...

Mennonite communities fled Europe for South America and, over the intervening decades, established large colonies in Latin American countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and Bolivia.

Deforestation in Indigenous territories is illegal in Paraguay. Indigenous residents and advocates told Mongabay that the clearing is being done by one of the region’s Mennonite colonies ...