After a July 10 accident that killed two brothers on their family farm in northwest Arkansas, Mennonite Disaster Service extended condolences and prayers to the MDS Search and Rescue Team, which responded on the scene in their own close-knit community.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with an Amish community in Minnesota when it ruled July 2 that a county mandate requiring septic systems to treat wastewater violated the group’s religious beliefs.
A man who led authorities to the remains of a young Amish woman in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty July 23 to kidnapping and killing her.
Hesston Mennonite Brethren Church in Kansas held a prayer service and candlelight vigil July 14 after a 14-year-old attendee, Madison Elizabeth Parrott, was fatally shot July 11 in Newton.
