According to Hebrew texts, 12 tribes once occupied the Land of Israel. Formed by descendants of the patriarch Jacob (later ...

According to ex-members of Twelve Tribes who spoke to The Daily Beast, children are regularly beaten and leaders preached “slavery is necessary.” ...

Twelve Tribes followers take pains to present an innocuous front to outsiders. They attract new members with a folksy peace-and-love, all-are-welcome message, but underneath that hollow promise of ...

The 12 tribes of Israel have a certain kind of divine cache, pedigree, or role to play in the end times. “From the medieval period on,” said Tobolowsky, ...

The Twelve Tribes cult was formed in the US in the early 1970s by a former high school guidance counsellor and carnival showman, Eugene Spriggs. He is now known as Yoneq.

In Kansas, the Twelve Tribes operates an organic sprouts farm and sells the sprouts under the brand name ChloroFields, state business records show.. Most of the Colorado communities’ money comes from ...

Twelve Tribes members’ lives are dominated by work from a young age. The ex-Boulder member who left in 2016 worked in a factory beginning when he was 13, he said.

For members of the Twelve Tribes, a Christian community with a branch in Pulaski, Tenn., about 40 miles northwest of Huntsville, the reunion lasts all year.

The Twelve Tribes' compound on Eldorado Springs Drive, fenced off by the Boulder County Sheriff's Office, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Some of the Twelve Tribes’ literature discusses fire, and ...

The Twelve Tribes' evening worship service in Manitou Springs is reminiscent of a scene straight from a hippie commune in the 1960s and early '70s, and this group does, ...

Overall, the Twelve Tribes survey showed that just 13% of voters listed moral issues as their primary concern, half the percentage as in 2004.Among members of the Religious Right, ...