Across Alberta’s fertile grainlands, no farmers work their soil with greater diligence or more fruitfulness than the Hutterites, the bearded and devout descendants of German-speaking immigrants who ...

TORONTO (RNS) Members of a small Hutterite colony in the Canadian province of Alberta say they will flout the law rather than submit to being photographed for their driver’s licenses. Residents of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...