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.

Of the 1,030 total cases in the province, 190 are considered active, 825 have recovered, 13 are in hospital and 15 people have died REGINA — Saskatchewan has posted its largest single-day jump in ...

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 ...

TORONTO (RNS) A group of Hutterites in the Canadian province of Alberta have lost their bid to be issued special driver’s licenses without photographs. The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday (July 24) ...

Good morning. It’s James Keller in Calgary. As COVID-19 cases rise across the country, there have been an increasing number of infections and outbreaks on Hutterite colonies across the Prairies. There ...

CARTIER, Manitoba – A Hutterite teenager was shot and killed while he was target practicing with others on the Lakeside Hutterite Colony. Brendan Hofer, 16, walked in front of someone target ...

Canadian prejudice against the Hutterites has steadily grown. It has never reached the fantastic degree of persecution suffered by the Doukhobors, but simply because the Hutterites have only responded ...

The life of a 24-year-old photographer who grew up on a Hutterite colony in rural Manitoba before moving to Calgary after coming out as gay — is at the centre of a documentary nominated for a couple ...

'We can answer a lot of questions that can’t be answered in mainstream communities,' said the project's leader. It’s 'knowledge that couldn’t be obtained anywhere else' You can save this article by ...

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 ...