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 ...

CONRAD, Mont. -- If it wasn't for the Hutterites, the Big Sky State would be home to only a small number of hogs. Forty colonies account for a whopping 95 percent of Montana's hog production. Midway ...

This photograph is on display as part of the “Hutterite Life” exhibit at Goshen College. Various aspects of Hutterite history, faith and culture, from their European beginnings in the 16th century ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEWISTOWN -- An art project that put disposable cameras into the hands of four-dozen Hutterite children has provided a rare glimpse into one of the state's most recognizable but least understood ...

“Hutterites are insistent that all of life belongs under the lordship of Jesus,” according to the Hutterian Brethren. “Along with beliefs in nonviolence and baptism following confession of faith, the ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

The Hutterian Brethren, or Hutterites, is a religious group originating from the Reformation in the 16th century. Hutterites and Mennonites (and the Amish) share common roots. Both sects are ...

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 ...