Old Order Amish church excommunicated Pentecostal healer Steve Lapp. Lancaster, Pa. — Wearing the bushy beard and black vest common to Amish men, Steve Lapp stood near the pulpit of a Pentecostal ...

BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa. — Six months after an Amish Pennsylvania teen vanished while walking home from church, the man accused of her abduction has been charged with her killing, authorities said Monday.

Linda Stoltzfoos Images from prosecutors show a red Kia Rio belonging to Justo Smoker, who is suspected of using the car to abduct Linda Stoltzfoos, 18, as she walked home from church June 21, 2020, ...

Researchers have seen changes in the Amish community, particularly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They said the Amish are diversifying their occupations, moving west to find more farmland and ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Authorities in rural Pennsylvania marked the 10-month anniversary of the abduction of Linda Stoltzfoos in a grim way, by recovering human remains they believe belong to the ...

Linda Stoltzfoos Images from prosecutors show a red Kia Rio belonging to Justo Smoker, who is suspected of using the car to abduct Linda Stoltzfoos, 18, as she walked home from church June 21, 2020, ...

“We don’t need any more books on the Amish,” the elder said to the professor. That, recalls Donald B. Kraybill, was the grumble he heard one October morning in 2003. The 7 a.m. phone call came after a ...

Are you familiar with Amish ordinations? An ordination is a service where a new minister, deacon or bishop is ordained. We have several examples in the New Testament of ways they ordained a church ...

On June 29, investigators spoke to an Amish couple who were taking a walk in Gap around 1:30 p.m. the day Stoltzfoos disappeared. Justo Roberto Smoker, 34, was charged Monday with killing Linda ...