"Women Talking" tells the story of women in a religious colony grappling with a series of sexual assaults, based on a 2018 book of the same name. The book, written by Miriam Toews, is inspired by ...

Midway through 2009, I awoke to a stranger-than-fiction story in the local press in Bolivia, the country where I had been living and working as a reporter for four years. A group of eight Mennonite ...

Over the course of four years, 130 females of a Mennonite colony in Bolivia reported that they’d woken up with raging headaches, bits of rope in their hair, pain “down below,” memory loss, and blood ...

A Manitoba grandfather who fell ill in Bolivia, and was flown home by air ambulance in time for the holidays, has died. Tracy Man said her father, Neil Nickel, passed away on Thursday. "Early this ...

In Manitoba, an insular Mennonite colony in Bolivia whose residents eschew modernity, a group of men were rounded up in 2009. Later, they were convicted of the rape and sexual assault of 151 women and ...

Monday is Thanksgiving. The Free Press is not publishing a print or e-edition on Monday, Oct. 13, but readers can visit our website for breaking news as well as coverage of the weekend Jets and ...

The Tranquil Mennonite settlement of Manitoba in eastern Bolivia has been transformed into fear and confusion when, this past June, suspicions were confirmed that at least 100 women and girls were ...