The Gazette

Twelve Tribes group, with a Manitou Springs connection, finds itself in spotlight after Marshall fire

The 2,000-3,000 members of the Twelve Tribes, one of the few groups surviving from the Jesus movement of the 1960s and 1970s, seek to obey God’s will as revealed in the old and new testaments. They ...
The Greeley Tribune

‘They are evil’: Ex-Twelve Tribes members describe child abuse, control inside religious cult

On a fall day in 1999, 19-year-old John I. Post packed up his birth certificate, Social Security card, state identification, favorite blanket and pictures of his family and prepared to leave the ...
Yahoo

‘Twelve Tribes’ elder sentenced in child rape case

FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — A Plymouth man was sentenced on Wednesday after he was found guilty of raping and sexually abusing two girls in Massachusetts, according to the Bristol County District ...
Yahoo

Twelve Tribes, a fundamentalist Christian sect that has faced child abuse and child labor accusations, is now part of probe into massive Colorado wildfire

Aerial photos show the destruction from the Marshall Fire on January 2, 2022 in Louisville, Colorado.Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images A Colorado sheriff confirmed ...
The Gazette

Twelve Tribes living as one in Manitou Springs

Standing in a circle, a group of Manitou Springs residents holds hands and begins to gyrate in a lively counterclockwise dance dedicated to Jesus. As musicians play acoustic guitars and flute, the 30 ...
Colorado Public Radio

Series finds Twelve Tribes linked to allegations of abuse, racism

The Twelve Tribes religious organization made headlines earlier this year for a possible link to the start of the deadly Marshall Fire. Investigators were looking into whether the fire started on ...
Daily Camera

From the Community Editorial Board: Twelve Tribes

Question: As one-time Marshall Fire suspects, Twelve Tribes has captured our attention. Your take? After initially identified as a potential suspect in the Marshall Fire, Twelve Tribes has been the ...
Mercury News

Twelve Tribes: A Black father’s struggle to pull his child from the racist cult

Cañon City resident Andre Shepherd has lived a delicate truce with the Twelve Tribes ever since his ex-wife took their 3-year-old daughter and moved into the group’s Manitou Springs compound five ...
FOX31 Denver

Property where Marshall Fire may have ignited has history of controlled burns

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — New records show the property that the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating as the potential origin of the Marshall Fire has a history of controlled ...
Business Insider

Twelve Tribes, a fundamentalist Christian sect that has faced child abuse and child labor accusations, is now part of probe into massive Colorado wildfire

A Colorado sheriff confirmed Monday that an investigation into the Marshall wildfire will include the Twelve Tribes community. Twelve Tribes is a fundamentalist Christian sect with a community in ...
The Denver Post

Twelve Tribes: A Black father’s struggle to pull his child from the racist cult

Andre Shepherd is pictured at his apartment in Cañon City on Jan. 31, 2022. Shepherd said his ex-wife joined the Twelve Tribes religious cult in Manitou Springs with their daughter, who is now 8 years ...