• In 1941, the Bruderhof emigrated from England to Paraguay — at the time the only country that would accept a pacifist community of mixed nationalities.
  • The Bruderhof is a communal Anabaptist Christian movement that was founded in Germany in 1920 by Eberhard Arnold.
  • ...members in 23 colonies in Germany, Paraguay, Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. In the United Kingdom, the Bruderhof is known as the Church Communities UK.
  • Like other rural Bruderhof communities, Woodcrest has an elementary school, dining hall and community kitchen, medical and dental clinic, community laundry...
  • This book is a first-hand and candid account of six months spent in the Bruderhof communities in Paraguay in the early 1950s.
  • But some former members have told BBC Inside Out their historical experience of growing up inside the Bruderhof's communities has left them psychologically...
  • Very religious people who are living in a community in Asunción and decided to improve in their own way the situation in Paraguay.
  • The authors describe their visit to the three Primavera Bruderhof communities in Paraguay and discuss the nature of the church, discipline, and practical...
  • The Bruderhof run a variety of businesses that provide income to run their communities and provide common work for the members who almost all work onsite.