Canada is struggling to contain a COVID-19 outbreak among a highly private religious group that lives in tight-knit colonies and eschews mainstream society for a more traditional agrarian lifestyle.

A Manitoba Hutterite minister is telling the province to stop identifying colonies where members have tested positive for COVID-19 because it is leading to stigmatization. Paul Waldner from the CanAm ...

When Anna Maendel cold-called St. James Collegiate instructor Mike James and asked him to teach her Hutterite students Advanced Academic Placement biology, he was somewhat hesitant. *Billed as $5.77 ...

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 ...

SPRING PRAIRIE COLONY, Minn. - The yoga positions proved briefly cumbersome for the 13 students in Cheryl Gottenborg's elementary class. The kindergarten through third-grade students giggled with arms ...

The Select Specialty Hospital of Sioux Falls is accusing a Hutterite colony of dumping members onto the state Medicaid program after they wrack up large health care bills. The hospital has filed suit ...

Manitoba Hutterites are concerned the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the province, coupled with the more geographically specific information the province is now releasing, could lead to more ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. A practicing Hutterite in Manitoba, Kenny Wollmann, answered questions about how modern technology is ...

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