The Mennonite Voluntary Service signed a pact with the U.S. government April 20 to provide alternative service for conscientious objectors should a draft ever be reinstated. The agreement has been in ...
In 1739, a 20-something from Bern, Switzerland, arrived in Lancaster after fleeing religious persecution. Peter Risser, a Mennonite, initially landed in Philadelphia but found his way to Elizabethtown ...