WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Up to 10 colonies of the strict Christian Hutterite sect say they face religious persecution from the Canadian province of Alberta's plan to force them to have their ...

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 ...

Brenda Hofer always knew someday she’d leave. "Someday I’m out of here," she’d tell visitors at the Hutterite colony in Fort Benton, Mont., where she lived. And if she had to, she’d run away with the ...

GRAND FORKS - A new reality TV show about life in a Hutterite colony in Montana gives outsiders a glimpse of a unique religious culture centered in the Northern Plains of North America. But it's also ...

OLIVET, S.D. — A spaghetti dinner with people in prairie dress and a church service in German is all in a day's work for Kerri Lutjens. The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn't speak German, has spent the ...

MILFORD - The Rev. John Kleinsasser remembers when nearly all of the farm work on the Milford Hutterite colony was done with horses. He worked alongside horse-drawn hay trailers wearing his ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- The local Hutterite colony is once again sharing their mountain of surplus potatoes with the community in a simple act of kindness. The Hutterites’ tradition of sharing unsold ...