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News to Pray For: July 29, 2010
Study Finds Amish Communities Growing Rapidly
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) _ A new study estimates the number of Amish in North America has doubled since 1992 and increased nearly 10 percent in the past two years alone.
The study by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College found that about two-thirds of today's 249,000 Amish still live in their traditional strongholds of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. But it says they're spreading west, particularly into the Midwestern corn belt.
The study's author, Don Kraybill, adds that about half of today's Amish are under 18 years old.
The Amish are a devout Christian faith dating to the 1500s. They generally eschew modern conveniences such as motorized vehicles, instead relying on horse-drawn carriages and permitting only limited use of telephones and electricity.
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