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They were thus technically Anabaptists, even though Conservative Mennonites, Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites and some historians tend to consider them as outside of true Anabaptism.

Local Amish were willing to work as carpenters and electricians, but declined to appear on film, so many of the extras actually were Mennonites.

The earliest settlers of what was to become Bird-in-Hand were Quakers and Swiss Mennonites.

Many early settlers were Huguenots or Swiss or German Mennonites and several church congregations of various faiths formed during the 1760s.

In the Netherlands, David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, described variously as Dutch Anabaptists or Mennonites, were executed by Catholic authorities in Ghent in 1554.

The Swiss-German Mennonites were among the first Europeans to occupy the subdivided lots.

For example, some Amish and Mennonites came to the Palatinate and surrounding areas from the German-speaking part of Switzerland, where, as Anabaptists, they were persecuted, and so their stay in the Palatinate was of limited duration.

This land came to the attention of a group of Mennonites in Pennsylvania who were looking for land on which to settle.

They were also in lieu of separate religious schools for groups such as Mennonites ; while the continued existence of Roman Catholic separate schools was mandated by the terms of Alberta's admission into Confederation, the government's policy was otherwise to encourage a unified and secular public school system.

Recruited as immigrants to Russia in the 18th century, they were allowed to maintain German culture, language, traditions and churches: Lutherans, Reformed, Roman Catholics, and Mennonites ( Russian Mennonites ).

His father ’ s Ringenberg ancestors were German Mennonites, a sect related to the Amish.

The larger rural landholdings of Mennonites were prominent targets due to their wealth and proximity to Gulyai-Polye.

Ukrainians were traditionally hired by wealthy Mennonites as house servants and farmhands.

Throughout 1918 a total of 96 Mennonites were killed in the Schönfeld-Brasol area.

The Mennonites of the Molotschna colony were under joint Makhnovist-Red occupation until the Whites broke through the southern front in May 1919.

They were known in America for helping with the Underground Railroad and, like the Mennonites, Quakers traditionally refrain from participation in war.

The founding Brethren were also in conversation with Mennonites and influenced by Anabaptist writings.

Many of the books were purchased by the Montgomery County Mennonites who had initiated the process.

In all, 33, 006 subscriptions were sold for a total value of $ 6, 740, 161, mostly to Mennonites, Brethren and Quakers.

They were a group of brethren near the Susquehanna River that had separated from the Mennonites.

Some congregations were theologically in between the extremely conservative Old Order Amish and the more progressive conference Amish Mennonites.

Mennonites and Canadian

Category: Canadian Mennonites

Beginning in 1989, a series of consultations, discussions, proposals, and sessions led to the unification of two North American bodies ( the Mennonite Church & General Conference Mennonite Church ) and the related Canadian Conference of Mennonites in Canada into the Mennonite Church USA and the Mennonite Church Canada in 2000.

Category: Canadian Mennonites

Others, particularly Mennonites, were born to Canadian parents in Mexico or Paraguay.

Category: Canadian Mennonites

* Canadian Mennonites devise sustainable agriculture practices that aid the Third World

Category: Canadian Mennonites

By 1930, twenty-one thousand Mennonites had arrived in Canada, most on credit provided by the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Category: Canadian Mennonites

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