The Amish are a peaceful, agricultural, religious society of people who believe in a life of discipline and hard work. Affiliation with the Amish church isn't just a matter of attending services on Sunday. The Amish live by the tenets of their faith...

The year 1993 marked the existence of 300 years of Amish life. Extinct in their European homeland, today they live in more than 200 settlements in 22 states and the Canadian province of Ontario. The Amish are one of the more distinctive and colorful...

The Amish (Amisch or Amische, pronounced /ˈɑːmɪʃ/) are an Anabaptist Christian denomination, formed in 1693 by Swiss Mennonites led by Jacob Amman. They live in the United States and Canada and are divided into several major groups. The Old Order...

After years of resistance, a growing number of Amish families are putting their farms into land preservation programs.While Amish farmers traditionally spurn government programs, younger Amish bishops have started to realize that selling development rights is a way to preserve both their land and their...

A tire blowout may have caused a van carrying passengers from an Amish community to flip over on a highway, killing three children and two adults, police said Monday. Eleven others were injured in the crash.Police said no other vehicles were involved Sunday when the...

Amish families kept to their homes Tuesday as they privately marked the anniversary of a schoolhouse attack that killed five girls a year ago.In keeping with Amish custom, no public observances were held for Tuesday's anniversary. A day earlier, local Amish families gathered to sing...

One shooting survivor depends entirely on her family for care and is fed through a tube. Another just endured surgery to repair a damaged shoulder and arm. A third suffers lasting vision problems.The girls who lived through the Amish schoolhouse shootings a year ago face...

An essay about the lives of Amish people.

In the mid the seventeenth century, the Amish movement was founded in Europe at the time of the Protestant Reformation. They are derived from a group impatient with the pace of reform in the existing churches.