Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Mary-Ann Kirkby knows what it's like to have others think she is oppressed. She said as a Hutterite, ...

The women from Manitoba's Baker Hutterite Colony have kept their hockey record perfect while making things a whole lot better for refugee families at the same time. The Baker women downed the Iron ...

It’d been a year, but all of Brenda Hofer’s doubts and anxiety flooded back. Fortunately, so did her dreams. On May 24, 2006, she literally fled from the place she called home — a Hutterite colony in ...

Lisa Marie Stahl, a young Hutterite woman who grew up at the Gildford Colony near Havre, provides a rare public glimpse into the lives of the Hutterites, a communal religious group with colonies in ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- The sheltered, simple life of a traditional religious colony isn't what it appears on the surface, say members of a group who rejected their upbringing and are making a new life for ...

This sweeping prairie memoir, self-published in Canada in 2007, rapidly garnered both commercial and literary applause. Recounting the author's journey from a Hutterite girlhood to an adolescence of ...

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 ...

It begins, almost always, in the dark — in a sliver of silence between the creak of floorboards on a colony that’s been asleep for hours. A young man, sometimes a woman, sometimes a family, steps out ...