Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said Thursday it has reached a preliminary agreement with Mennonites living in southern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Location: Valle Nuevo, Mexico This is a Mennonite community in southern Mexico toiling the land in the name of their ...

Dear Gabacho: Actually, Mexico’s main concentration of its 26,000 Mennonites is in the northern part of the country, specifically in the state of Chihuahua. Their ancestors arrived in the 1920s from ...

The Mennonites of Mexico are the descendants of strictly conservative Protestants whose denominations emerged out of the 16th century Reformation in Europe. But then the government installed the first ...

VALLE NUEVO, Mexico, July 12 (Reuters) - The largest tropical forest in North America yields to perfect rows of corn and soy. Light-haired women with blue eyes in wide-brimmed hats bump down a dirt ...

ASCENCION, Mexico, May 19 (Reuters) - The Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Mexico, can trace its roots as far back as a century ago, when the first such settlers came seeking ideal farming land, ...

It’s been nearly a century since pacifist Mennonites fled Russia for the plains of western Canada, immigrating later to northern Mexico to turn some of its arid high desert into model productive farms ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Several Mennonites living in Mexico are being denied entry to purchase farm equipment at auctions in the United States, and some New Mexico merchants and one elected ...

toiling the land in the name of their Christian faith. Their agricultural prowess was once welcomed here. But now, both ecologists and the Mexican government see Mennonites' ranches as an ...