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 ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A character on a National Geographic Channel documentary series about a rural Hutterite colony defended his community and the production company after Hutterite bishops criticized the ...

WASHINGTON — A character on a National Geographic Channel documentary series about a rural Hutterite colony defended his community and the production company after Hutterite bishops criticized the ...

We left the Hutterites in 1770, invited to settle in the Ukraine and the Volga region by Catherine the Great. In 1763 the Russian government issued a manifesto offering foreign settlers free land — as ...

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 concerned many ...

WASHINGTON - Hutterite bishops say a new National Geographic reality series that follows the members of a rural Montana colony gives a "distorted and exploitative version" of life inside a ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Hutterite bishops say a new National Geographic reality series that follows the members of a rural Montana colony gives a "distorted and exploitative ...

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 ...

This undated image released by National Geographic Channels shows Hutterite Judy Hofer picking carrots from the garden in King Colony, Mont. "Meet the Hutterites," a National Geographic documentary ...

(RNS) Members of a Hutterite colony in Montana that's the focus of a new National Geographic reality show say the series is a ``distorted and exploitative'' depiction of their life that is not what ...

TV review: On the surface, it looked like heaven on earth. A peaceful community, a place where everyone looked out for each other. Set deep in the tranquil Canadian countryside, Maple Grove was a ...

Richard Waldner was 16 when he stole a car to help his sister abandon a Hutterite colony near Winnipeg. The brother and sister took a vehicle from the property and drove to Portage la Prairie on a ...