dead with one shot to the head and her male colleague severely injured with a for shots and he died shortly after on the scene. they also found some car tracks and they found a driver's license and an id card of who turned out to be the main suspect, a 30 year old man from the nearby state of sal. and that's when they began investigations. and after around 12 hours, they cornered in, on the suspect they arrested him and a further suspect to 32 year old man. and they are now currently in custody. state of use that you that so deli reporting earlier. you're watching to every news life from berlin, coming up next, a d. w documentary on the reclusive mennonite christian community. and i'll see you tomorrow. ah, imagine so many portions of love us her now in the world. climate change very often

story. this is my plan, the way from just one week how much was going to really get we still have time to work on going on with ah, ah, it may look like a scene from a bygone era, but these young people are part of the community present take central america ah ah, they belong to a christian group known as mennonites, ultraconservative protestants, who shoot the mud. whoa. okay,

yeah, i mean, once some boys on the other, they're resorting passages from the bottle in old. hi jim. i this morning. the youngest children alone in the alphabet o 5 nominate or a chicken look at the letter and pointing to. mm hm. ah, ah. the older children reading the new testament, printed in france, a traditional german script and not taught history, geography or foreign languages. the bible is the only text book. oh yes, zane and baden, i teach them to read and give them sing. i pray should he recite poetry write year and that he account? that's it would lead mid to all the sun will be down to children,

begin their schooling at age 6 and finish when the 13 long enough to learn the basics. i thought, but this is all we learn from when i went to school in my, my brother and my grandfather went to school, actually always known to resurrect this is not a high school college or anything or studying as practicing my learning. we'll see what happens with the fighters doing with him. after he finished school, our brand became a black snake like his father. he has 20 children, 3 of his 60 grandchildren, a pupils in this class. mennonites believe children are a blessing directly from god. blue eyed lawns abound. originating from germany, the netherlands and switzerland. the mennonites fled europe 250 years ago,

and some eventually settled in central and south america. devout anabaptist, they strictly adhere to the doctrine of men or seamans. a 16th century dutch priest, begley, lives full of rigor and discipline. there are the 2000000 mennonites worldwide, but only a fraction or old order mennonites, virtually self sufficient. they live in settlements with their own schools, churches, and trades. this isolation shields them from modern day temptations. now, one colony of this secluded community has agreed to be filmed for this documentary . life in this religious group revolves around the bible. everything is pre determined, right down to the color of their clothes. just have to that is can address. it's going to religion. do all kinds of different clues to rules of very

straight breaking them can have severe consequences for it don't are. if people don't obey the church, we must shun them. yet the temptations a many, a few months ago, franz approach, i'm a forbidden object, a smartphone. i know the reality, though i do not feel guilty. i see there's so many good things. behind the serene facade, some members are rebelling they're challenging the communities. most fundamental doctrines will help is one of the shunt and their mind like a cell phone, it's made by c. so consider the living. nothing oper am on the other hand, is a 1st to change. that's why he and several other families plan set up a new colony in an even more remote part of the world, the heart of the amazon. yes it is that

a new to them from starting round. dear old girl. so who are the mennonites, and why do they flee modern civilization? is it even possible to escape the contemporary world in this day and age? we take a closer look at one of the 21st century, most hoisted communities. ah, our journey begins in central america on the western edge of the tube, hawes waters of the caribbean sea, ah, situated between mexico and water, my life is the country of police. the former british colony has an extremely diverse population. among itself, $400000.00 inhabitants and mosquitoes cradles and maya.

most of the mennonites live further inland. hidden away in the country side is little belize, an old order colony established in the 1970s. time seems to have stood still, cars are forbidden or strong buggy, so used to get around really minimal. it's not used to having contact with outside us than of hostile but somewhat perturbed by our presence in i don't know what to make of our cameras. some even hide their faces like this woman. is it possible to go to the reader aloud at because people get frightened and

young ladies for when they get pregnant they get shaker. so arm when they're yeah, no film because they they're frightened or they're not. did they not used to it? that's the reason. ah, conservative men and i'd spoon modern technology by a few are open minded. mike france, physically to talk to us, endorse here, and i am raising here the whole of my life. i've never seen somewhere else. my whole home country. i like it. yeah. like the culture and everything and it's beautiful. it enjoyed my life. fans is 36 years old and he lives on this farm which he built himself. ah,

he and his wife elizabeth have 7 children 15 year old twins honor and katerina of the eldest gotta is 13 and elizabeth tin opera home and peter $6.00 and $8.00. and sorry, the youngest is 4 years old. there are typical men and like family most have 7 to 12 children. they live a simple way of life, a few fields, a chicken coop, and a couple of cows are enough to keep the family fed. the girls tend to the livestock with oh, don't pour it all on the same side. put some here and some there with france, works from home. he's a mechanic in his workshop. he repairs machinery for customers who are not members

of the community. he owns around $500.00 a month on average. his daughter katerina, who 2 years ago since then she's been working with her father. we have only a girl. that's why she have to do the job like this. if he had boys big boys in that age and think she will have to were again said the boys will have to do this job. this is probably a job for, for boys with fresh roles and a mennonite household and clearly defined. the women take care of the home and they do the cooking, cleaning and laundry. they also so close for the entire family. and that too is governed by strict rules.

ah, when elizabeth needs more fabric she go shopping, there is no sign or advertisement to indicate that it is a store and the choices here i limited. ah, this one is too dark for me. this one is pretty nice for the younger girls. news. the bright colors reserve for the younger girls, dresses, the dark fabrics are for the married women. the men are to wear straw hats and checked all striped chairs. for half a meter we'll do. everything is precisely specified for us, do you see any big difference between these told at some time or another. somebody home elizabeth only speaks plat, toich, or low german, a dialect. she is primarily by mennonites, her sister in law, marguerite, however,

also speaks english, and she feels as in, on some of the customs. debts are, we have learned like godson's, my parents, my grandparents, great grandparents. we just keep it like that. it's been like that all the time. we can what we're, what you want. no, you just have to where it is can address it's going to religion. if you do all kinds of different clues, won't have any written long, you know, right? no, not doing it on no up make up, notting? no make up now. goodness from it should been yeah. why just oh, oh, call old men and needs to so it like dad why, why, why, why we don't know anything else. you have to material for t dresses and a shirt for what amounts to 8 euros. there's no excessive spending. mennonites lead a lot. so osteo, it's almost monastic. void of distractions. no music, no sports,

and no television. going to close the slate, come to a moment of lisha is in church every sunday we were asked not to film, then a community leader has agreed to meet and talk with us. william is something like the colonies may. he too has 7 children in order to give us a better understanding of their beliefs. he invites us to his home for dinner. the only source of light is a single oil lamp. the house has no electricity. the furnishings aspires. there are no pictures on the walls, only the bare minimum. let us pray. the

girl sit on both sides of the table while williams sits at the head and his son at the other end. the meal is eaten a silence. it's a practice mennonites of followed for centuries. to night's dinner consists of beans, a vegetable soup and sausages life, as it was lived in the 19th century. road render with slow them resolve this today bible says that to be accepted into heaven . we're not allowed to have any modern things like tvs, telephones, computers, or cars. among the we're talk to renounce madana example. when certain people do not want to obey the church, the more we might shut them down, they can no longer take part in community like really the only my don't really an agenda between my aunts like to know is explicitly id. you abide by the rules or you are banished from the community.

with a lot has changed since the mennonites came and found the colony here half a century ago. this used to be nothing but jungle. now the colony is spread out over a 100 square kilometers and bows. nearly 3000 inhabitants. when they built roads, they paved away for further development. in spite of their respect for the doctrine sombre labors, find modern conveniences hard to resist. for france at all began when he had to buy a phone for work, he's taking a she trys by showing it to us before when i saw a phone or something or use it a little bit, i feel very guilty at the very go in know i know the reality?

no, i do not feel guilty. i see there's so many good things in france discovered the internet and the love for music. the rhythm of country and western radically changed his family's life. and me and i very fascinated. they really like your new life. it's a new lifestyle for where are we? hadn't there is any music so it could nurse have any life. it is a good beaufort live and then abruptly france, which itself is fine. there's someone coming rather is going to do it. right. you must hide your phone. now. this is for my brother. yes, i have to hide my phone because i'd really but i don't like to to see them

mad. if they don't see the phone, it will be more happy to me so that's maybe in the future. they will start to know more about the reality. no more. busy france has to be careful even around his brother if anyone finds out that he has a phone, the risks excommunication, ah, that is what happened to fill him. he's used to provide medical care for the families here. he lives next door to france. cancer surgery. they sit down here and sit down here and then i have a speech then pro probably shy if they'll pin and there are of them and i would have them there. don't cover them up chapter. well the people from the village came here last year. oh yeah, preacher sat there, you know,

for 20 years bill home was the colonies lay doctor, although he has no formal training. his mother was a nurse and he taught himself by study medical textbooks. he bought a phone in order to save lives. and i felt like i had to have it because there were so many i to dance and then i felt like an obligation to carla. a taxi or to call on the doctor, sir? i said i was so useful for me and i had it and, and they were complaining about that and they wanted me told to lose it. i'm in a say, know that decision cost him dearly because he broke the rules. he lost everything that they, they knew that they would excommunicate me. the day before, i would say i had about at least 60 patients. at least 60,

that went on the whole day. up till late on the night. the next day i got excommunicated. no one cramps again, so that stops from 60 to overnight to 0. so since his expulsion wilham has been shunned by the community, these days he sells tires an hour's drive from home. ah, he decided to found a new nonconformist congregation within the conservative community. mennonites, behind the wheel of pickup trucks, a surprising size. they belong to the dozens of families that now attend the new church. from all appearances, these believers still seem to abide by the traditional men and light codes of conduct. but on closer inspection,

there are undeniable signs of change even from the pulpit. the sermon is read from a smartphone all there is no bible to be seen. with all the gospel of matthew, the 11 disciples went to galilee to the mountain where jesus had sent them very sissy. when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted what rob watson, yes, it will be done. not build him instigated the construction of the new church. so hold on here. oh yeah. they are allowed to legally allowed. music is alone. movie and the others are only what it's not allowed to drink. and all that what, what, what is wrong? this development troubles more traditional mennonites, they believe that souls are being lost. ah, bram is one of those traditionalists. he's joining several of the families who

decided to leave police to set up a new colony improve one that's more loyal to the old order. yeah, like we were billed out there more traditional and on the community so that they will be more more, more em i don't know exactly how to explain, but that people service more conservative deal more people together. oper am a pharma will embark on the new adventure with his wife and 7 children, even though he's infested a lot in his life here in little belize. so this is the house. what i had been at the 1st point. so knowing. busy i want to leave it, so let 4 out of people can use and now if they want to change, i haven't batter won so they can put a new one. so that's how i'm thinking now. and now i want to sell it for whatever

thing and the land opera and peru represents the promise of an even better life. if 1st point is sad, like there, it sounds like this, oil and everything. it sounds better to work here and nam, having an having more and more. yeah. like more people in the town who will buy us are to wichita boats and car on soya and beans and all the things what we produce. they will buy more so we could sell more, what we produce, that will make our more happier. those moving to preparing for the departure that entails selling most of their positions

welcoming and not water ban. like how much for the set of bowls? dry your 5 dollars to dollars? quite on $4.00 a month. wow. wow. yeah. cub needs to sell as much as he can with ruby, a trash can or a casserole dish. everything must go red, i'm selling whatever i can take with me. yeah. okay. yeah, i'm selling the house is my, all the furniture, all the things we used every day, like all we're taking is our bug. you. the rest will be sold or you can go thought out here for not being here. every dollar counts. the money will go toward constructing the new colony the auction last the whole day with one thing after a wants to take to prove is farming equipment. 11 families are sharing the space

and cost of shipping container. with take this over there, nan. yeah, there is a lot we have to put everything together and to get together and tell it fits only their most precious possessions will make the trip to peruse. that includes tractors and machinery needed to clear roads the country had a few things. they are not big farmers inside in the country, so that's why we think about we can carry cheaper. we have it here on the card, ordered to cheaper than me, buy it from brazil or anywhere movers to believe city then by boat. yes. and by boat i, the container will arrive 2 months after they do. there isn't much room left, but opera has a surprise in store for his wife. he's going to take their marriage bed. the only

reminder if they're past life is, is the bed. so that is what we have ready once your wife wanted to see. yeah, my way i want that to keep does she want to keep the beds for? she will be happy dare not lose everything. she loos, that they go long, but not lose everything. ah, it's the evening before their departure. operands. family is feeling apprehensive, especially as wife elena gord, america for it will be difficult there. we had everything here. next week we have to start all over again. fail the clinton done done until at the moment the biggest fear is the flight. no one has been on an airplane before. turns out now,

are you afraid of flying? lie? no, not yet. but i don't know how i'll feel when i have to board. and you, helen, how do you feel about going for room and say, i'm really excited. oh really? oh yes, i can't wait. oh they, we'll see who gets on the plane 1st that and i'm going then i don't want to be 1st move. mm ah, that's what i'm going to still go. the time has come for the family to go and stay home in the biggest one, what i have or had in my life. climb in boys. lots young albred's parents want to see them all. so it's not easy for his mother. this is the

1st time one of her children has left the colony. oh yeah. yeah. you know, don't worry, everything's going to be fine. it's all under control high quite well. i'm still anxious. yeah, i understand. um, what are you good bye and safe journey? let us isaac, will you visit us? maybe in april? i yeah. okay. ah 3 hours later they arrived be important belize city. they're the 1st of the group to get there for abram. this is where the adventure truly begins. is the 1st time what i am thinking, the play. that's why i'm telling my children. now i'm reading 43 years. i want double with the plane. so in all my children all day,

they're happy all they can go what me to gather longer when i get there. oh, when i will go and i will go. it's going to be great. the rest of the group have also arrived. 7 families, $53.00 people in total. they've all bought one way. tickets, no one plans to return. it's time to say good bye op ramps parents came to the airport to make the most of the last few moments with the family. ah, there were no hugs and kisses. a simple hand shake suffices. every one appears calm and composed. but ob ramps mother can't quite hold back wretches. she doesn't know if she'll ever see her son or grandchildren again. the techniques you cheap into

the unknown. ah ah, the challenges begin with the escalator with ah, yes ma'am. okay, who are you scared? me neither. this is fine. it's a bit shaky opera i'm seems excited, but his wife elena is

a little anxious. what's that cloud's clouds? yes. clouds were flying over clouds. i was wondering why there was so much smoke the journey will take 24 hours. after i stop, i have room panama. they arrive in lima, the capital of proof, with while waiting for the final flight to pull culpa, few can keep their eyes open. no one has slept much since they left belize. lazy, lazy, lazy, she long. oh, it's a long trip. i'm the sprawling

group of men and odds does not go unnoticed. yes. the air force employee who checks in their luggage is curious. she knows where they're headed and asked them about it. but why are you going to pu culpa that we want to work there? i guess work it, we bought land there. and for kit it was, and we're going to work it. what will you grow? because it will grow corn beans, soya la mellum, a cucumber peppers and tomatoes, and all can, will keep chickens. okay. where will your children go to school? is to the are you good yet? let me i think that in that will build a school fee. there isn't one area at all, but we'll build one that. yeah, that's not a penny. that never hurts. i'm surprised. i didn't think it was possible to

live out there. but i'm happy for you. i mean that it always surprised a little bit. they don't know. you are they now on the manila lot of people. they're surprised they didn't know good about odds done. you total dash scheme for where are you coming? where you want to go. so what, what happens? what's going on? until because they don't know you not the don't know, i didn't look people saw him but they sometimes if they think about traveling but but not so i'm a grow so many in a group on so many baggage. the mennonites take the 3rd and final flight. this one's to pull compa a town northeast of lima, that's close to the amazon rain forest. they've traveled nearly 3500 kilometers.

upon arrival a few mosier taxis awaiting the mennonites as something of an attraction. he a to miss. there's room over here. i gotta move with the largest court in the region po, copa is the gateway to the amazon. the city has around 200000 inhabitants. ah, then does from the surrounding villages come here to celtic goods? opera is to lie shanty. yeah, lots of stuff that's bright, but looks happy,

beauty fog. yeah. oh oh. oh, they look nice and looked and looked like dad. lots of moment. yeah. and that old allan this year. oh, it looks ominous. lots and low men fell right here. i think. here we can work like we're how we like to because i see that people is moving on lots and lots of people will be a big different n and believe because believe so poor and so little that people every pink time, just the passports leave from there. mm abram has no time to lose. he left the leaves with the bare minimum. so he needs to buy a few supplies before heading into the rain forest. the 1st he has to change money

. ha, say, come and count the dollars. this is operant entire savings. 30 years of work now he's investing at all in his future. retail harsh is somehow whatever what they sell on the auction tail, and then i get the money into an occasion for buying things more on buy meyer land or open my land. abram has a total of $18000.00 us donna's not much to start a new life. that's why the group ice things in bulk to save money. first thing on the list mattresses don't any guy altogether because a ball pen than to have

a different price. that's why we are altogether going. i'm buying things that's not florida. well, this one is hard. no, it would be like sleeping on the ground, but not the day is drawing to an end in po culpa, but abrams work has just begun to morrow. he will take an exploratory expedition to the new colony. i said apples, apples vitamin, come and get your elbows. then i say, yeah, up ram has reserved a seat on 1st to t ever. blanca, the last village before the colony, young man, another member of the group, is accompanying him. the trip will take 2 days. okay, only with the tributary of the amazon.

i caught my eye on what, what's going on? i'm wondering everything. and then i know everything with a few hours later there are no more buildings in sight. nothing but long stretches of forest. but that doesn't trouble abra on the country. that's why i love you. that's what i like. i i that's what i like to pass a white glove blanket toilet draw and a half hour they grow vegetables or anything like that. the car after 48 hours on the boat, abram has nearly reached his personal paradise. we

almost there? yes, not far. now. how much longer? about half an hour. but there's more to come. abram in your hand, take another much smaller boat. it's the only way to reach then you hon. deep in the heart of the amazon. hardly any one traverse is the river at this point. and once they touch land, it's still not over. they've got another 90 minutes along a muddy bumpy road. you

hear that with at one point, joe, hannon abra, have to get out and push still and nothing can damp and upper amps enthusiasm. the road is very difficult, but they have, they could change. you could change it the 1st time. yeah. we have to work best with yet above you want to come. you have to do everything. yeah. yeah. everything else did to start a new dance from starting from 0 to go with after 2 hours, the 1st house comes into view. it was built by the 6 mennonite families who settled

here a year ago. we reach we finally found you, are you hello, welcome. off ah, that's enough in luckily we could take the road. otherwise, we'd have had to walk. and you good water, melanie, that's nothing compared to how it was when we came with all our luggage around 50 minutes living here, all in their own, in the middle of the jungle without electricity or running water with is a lot to be john, pop ram, and his family will have to live in tents before they are able to build

a house if they're running around when will it be finished? about that he being it says one week here work. and so maybe 2 to 3 days more and then yeah, this house ready? mm hm. just 2 weeks to build a house, mennonites, assistant carpenters, and they know how to make the most of what they've got the people and delays. a lot of time did they say, oh, how could that happen? does we, people don't go to school and they do a lot different things than they do. and how could it be? but they say i, we say we work on the farm on practice, on a farm. we don't go to school. we go to school on the farm. a little deeper in the forest opera and we'll see his own plot of land for the 1st time. he's way to the heath this moment. i don't know

what this is. this is death. my piece of land here. yes. so now this is how we, how we 1st open. this is the bosh. and so now right now we will go inside and there i could show you how i will make my house. it's the land i've always dreamed of with our friends. first instinct is to reach down and grab a handful of oil. 10 men to plan cards. and all the vegetables for this fall will be very, very good. one side and will be off. and on our side there will be out there monday eventually will be here for on

the yard front yard. so when people come on the right here in the yard that tablet, ok, i have a the day that, that, ah, this is where he wants to create a new mennonite community based on old order traditions back here. and we will be more isolated and more helpful, more love, and everything. it will be more together. people living with in a year's time, over 40 families will be at home here, around 300 people in the amazon. it may be the last refuge for the midnight. mm. a pulse has a beginning of

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