In their own personal chapter, nine ex-Hutterites write about a way of life they describe as a "very oppressive regime." All were members of a colony from the time they were born in the 1980s until ...

The prairies of Alberta have plenty of room, but not for Hutterites. The Hutterites are a group of almost 4,000 “Christian Communists” who broke away, in the 16th Century, from the Mennonites (see ...

When siblings Rodney and Darlene Waldner made a decision to leave their Hutterite colony several years ago, they did it to pursue religious freedom. “None of us left the colony because we wanted to ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) – A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an ...

Hutterites are Protestants of German descent whose traditional, religious-centered lives have been compared to that of the Amish and Mennonites, but they live in commune-like colonies in rural areas ...

Hutterites are Anabaptists, originally from Germany and Switzerland. They moved to Austria and Ukraine. In the 1880s, about 400 came to settle at Bon Homme County in South Dakota, on the southern ...

LOS ANGELES — A TV documentary series about an Anabaptist community in Montana offers a “distorted” and contrived image, bishops representing the Hutterite faith in the U.S. and Canada said Thursday.

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. - Parts of the former Park Ace Hardware building here will be reused by Hutterites for other construction. Two Hutterite colonies began razing the building on Highway 71 near ...

In November 2016, as cold winds swept across the Canadian prairie, Najwa and Reyad Al Hamoud welcomed their third child into the world. From her hospital bed, Najwa sent out a flurry of excited text ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- For years, friends have been asking Aberdeen attorney Jeff Sveen how to get their hands on the best fresh chickens, down pillows or handmade couches from South Dakota's Hutterite ...