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 ...

But Hofer is part of an unusual and intriguing world, a small Montana religious commune depicted in National Geographic Channel’s “American Colony: Meet the Hutterites.” Hofer, 52, a widowed mother of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image released by National Geographic Channels shows Hutterite Judy Hofer picking carrots from the garden in King ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Religious colonies of Hutterites in rural Montana are fighting the state's attempts to impose a labor law backed by businesses that complain they can't outbid the low cost of the ...

A split top-court judgment denying Hutterites an exemption from mandatory driver's licence photos is a setback for religious rights, critics say. And one of the most surprisingly forceful voices ...

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 ...

(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 ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Leaders of a Hutterite colony are demanding an apology from the National Geographic Society and a pledge that it never again broadcast a television show they say misrepresented ...

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 ...