GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — Trees have dropped cash in an Indiana county.

Elkhart County distributed thousands of dollars Tuesday to church groups and community organizations for collecting tons of leaves. Officials wanted to provide an incentive to reduce leaf burning.

Twenty-one teams took ...

NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — Two Mennonite churches in Kansas say they could provide sanctuary to immigrants who are living unlawfully in the country.

The Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton has voted as a congregation to help such immigrants, and church members are working on transforming part of ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Mennonite missionary from Virginia who lived in Haiti for more than a decade has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for child sexual abuse in the impoverished Caribbean nation, officials said.

James Arbaugh, 40, of the small Virginia town of Stuarts Draft is the latest ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have slapped a 10.3 million peso ($540,364) fine on a Mennonite community for clearing tropical vegetation that was home to a protected olive-throated parakeet.

The Attorney General for Environmental Protection said Monday that members of the ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two churches in Kansas say they’ll protect immigrants facing deportation even if it means arrest.

Newton’s Shalom Mennonite Church and Moundridge’s First Mennonite Church are two of a growing number of churches nationwide that have joined the sanctuary movement,

HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, Earl Martin and Pat Hostetter Martin became acquainted while getting their exercise during the Vietnam War, where they were service workers for Mennonite Central Committee.

“We were assigned to the same area in the Vietnam Christian Committee,” ...

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — A Mennonite college in northern Indiana is planning to install more than 900 electricity-generating solar panels on its campus.

Goshen College says the solar panels will be placed atop the school’s Rec-Fitness Center.

DENVER (AP) — The Latest on a Mennonite investigator jailed in Colorado after refusing to testify (all times local):

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A Colorado appeals court says a defense investigator who has been jailed indefinitely for refusing to testify in a death penalty case cannot testify as a ...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado appeals court judges rejected a request to release a defense investigator as she appeals her jail sentence for refusing to testify for prosecutors in a death penalty case.

The decision released Thursday was based on a technicality, and the panel plans to hear ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — A small rebel group in Paraguay has released two Mennonite men that it kidnapped four months ago in the country’s north, authorities said Monday.

Mexican citizen Franz Hiebert, 32, and Paraguayan Bernhard Blatz, 22, were released in a forest in the state of ...

SHERIDAN, Mich. (AP) — The Mennonite community is mourning the deaths of three children following a collision between their horse-drawn buggy and a pickup truck in central Michigan.

Family and friends attended a visitation Wednesday in Sheridan for Cameron Martin, 11; Kayla Martin, 9; and ...

FREEMAN, S.D. (AP) — Students at a Mennonite school in southeast South Dakota are selling items from their garden to raise money for a Puerto Rican sister school severely damaged by Hurricane Maria.

Freeman Academy students are selling pumpkins and gourds with the goal of raising $1,000. ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three men have been found shot to death in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua, and prosecutors say they appear to be members of the state’s Mennonite community.

The state prosecutors’ office said Sunday the bodies were found in the cab of a pickup truck with New ...

MOUNDRIDGE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas pastor has written a book that focuses on what rural churches can and must do to stay alive.

The Hutchinson News reports that Brad Roth is a pastor at ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman trying to avoid being deported to Mexico and separated from her U.S.-citizen children has moved into an Ohio church offering her sanctuary in a symbolic gesture.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — From the road, you’d never guess what’s inside Habecker Mennonite Church in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on a Sunday morning.

Surrounded by cornfields, obscured by trees, lacking a steeple or stained glass, the outside is unremarkable by design. It’s tucked into ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Mennonite Church USA voted Thursday to sell its holdings in companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, the latest American Christian group to do so.

The decision was made at a national Mennonite convention in Orlando, Florida. ...

PORCUPINE, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say the frozen body of a missing woman was found near her mother’s grave on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

An initial investigation found 49-year-old Donna Scout died from exposure on the property of Lakota Mennonite Church in Porcupine Tuesday. Scout ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amid the weekend tumult over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, Walter Hansen’s two-man sign shop in Waynesboro was besieged.

As protesters massed and lawyers descended on airports across the country ...

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Shelley Shellenberger sits in a chair by the window in his Landis Homes apartment, wrapping strands of yarn around the pegs of a Knifty Knitter loom.

After he has wrapped enough yarn and used a hook to pull the colorful strands together and back up over the pegs many ...