Lizzie Ens grew up Amish until the age of 19, when she left the community to start a new life in the modern world and was shunned by her family Growing up, she only received up to an eighth-grade ...

This Sunday, Erika Riley from LNP | LancasterOnline tackled the topic of Amish education, which begs the question: should it be legal to require education for children only until the 8th grade? Torah ...

The Amish Heritage Foundation is holding its second annual conference in New York City this weekend, a year after its inaugural event at Franklin & Marshall College. This year's conference takes place ...

Jaclyn Shaw learned about the traditionalist lifestyle when she moved from California to a rural town in Northern Indiana ...

A western Wisconsin judge wrongly based his decision on the educational views of the Amish when he ordered a teenager to mostly live with her father, rather than her Amish mother, a state appeals ...

Amish students sit and listen during Westveiw''s eighth grade graduation ceremony Wednesday. The annual eighth-grade graduation took place Wednesday at Westview School Corp., and about half the ...

(RNS) — Lack of education and a culture of submission create an environment ripe for abuse, says the founder of the nonprofit Amish Heritage Foundation. (RNS) — The Amish are known for living a simple ...

CLARK, Mo. (RNS) As the number of Amish have grown, so too have the number of Amish children diagnosed with genetic-based disorders. CLARK, Mo. (RNS) Maryann Yoder, 5, will join her sister Edna, 7, ...

I was reporting on an education conference in a downtown Washington hotel when I noticed TV monitors in the lobby were turned on to CNN and Fox news and broadcasters were reporting on an attack on a ...

INDIANAPOLIS – At least one Amish man has died in northeast Indiana from the novel coronavirus as local officials are trying to educate a segment of society that shuns modern communication and is also ...

Two decades after she was shunned by her family, Lizzie Ens is pursuing a PhD in functional medicine Lizzie Ens grew up Amish until the age of 19, when she left the community to start a new life in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lizzie Ens grew up Amish until the age of 19, when she left the community to start a new life in the modern world and was shunned ...