As Amish communities expand across the US, old practices are colliding with modern health codes and testing the limits of religious freedom ...

(AP) -- A long-running religious freedom case has come full circle, with a court ruling this week that a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota cannot be threatened with the loss of homes if ...

TOWN OF FRANKLIN, Wis. — Daniel Borntreger’s home looks like hundreds of other Wisconsin farmhouses: two-story A-frame, porch, clothes on the line. But his home could cost him thousands of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Amish groups are protesting a decision to remove a religious exemption from state law that allows them to directly access state funding for sick children. The Amish say the exemption ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that Pennsylvania’s religious freedom law needs to be considered more fully in a case about a township’s efforts to make an Amish woman stop using ...

(The Conversation) — Much of the tourism industry that’s sprung up around Amish areas says more about Americans’ own identity than Amish values, a scholar writes. (The Conversation) — Ohio’s Amish ...

During the past 18 months, at least 18 legal actions brought against Amish in N.Y., Wisc. Custom-built homes are allowed in Wisconsin as long as the plans meet code standards, but apparently the Amish ...