In Peru, Mennonites have established five thriving colonies in the Amazon in the past decade. Their presence is a thorn in the side of the 780-strong Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous community, which lives ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mennonite colonies first began appearing in Peru’s rainforests around 2017, and deforestation due to their activities has spiked from zero in 2017 ...

David Klassen, one of the founders of the Mennonite community at Masisea in the Peruvian Amazon, poses for a picture with his family - Copyright AFP DAVID SWANSON ...

When they saw men with arrows and machetes bearing down on them, Daniel Braun and other Mennonites living in the Peruvian Amazon fled across rice paddies, some of their barns ablaze behind them. In ...