Before the Reformation, there was not a Catholic Church in the Roman Catholic sense we think of today. It was just the church ...

Traveling from the Lehigh Valley to Philadelphia in the 1700s was no easy feat. You could walk the sixty miles or cover the ...

A local farmer has been unveiled to contest a north-east seat at next year’s Scottish Parliament election for the Conservatives. Buckie man Tim Eagle to be their candidate at next year’s Scottish ...

In the Triad, a group of Moravians continued a long-standing tradition. They spent Friday cleaning and decorating gravesites in Old Salem. Sign up for our Newsletters One volunteer said he's been ...

Congregations with German ties, the dominant ethnic group in York County, were made up, in part, of those with pacifist beliefs: Brethren, Mennonites and Moravians. One Mennonite youth spoke out ...

Lititz has that rare quality of being both a legitimate local community and a destination worth visiting. The town was founded by Moravians in the 1740s, giving it that distinctive Pennsylvania Dutch ...

However, in Bulgaria, the population was Bulgarian and it was not fitting for them to say that their enlighteners had created the Slavic alphabet for the Moravians. 'corrected', with all references to ...

The attackers were eventually beaten back and retreated to Lizard Creek Valley. The book also chronicles the Moravians who settled in the area, too, but they did not provoke Indian ire and were able ...

In 1722 he bought an estate to house oppressed religious believers. Soon a number of Moravians, fleeing persecution in their homeland, came there for protection. The place established to shelter them ...