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Sat 08 Aug 2008Reclusive Amish community goes forth and multiplies
UNITED STATES:The cloistered Amish community is one of the fastest-growing religious groups in the US
THE RECLUSIVE Amish community, who dress in 19th century clothes, travel by horse and buggy and speak a dialect of German, live in stark contrast to the mainstream of contemporary American culture. Far from being a relic of a bygone age, however, the Amish are among the fastest-growing religious groups in the country, almost doubling in numbers over the past 16 years.
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