Amish share meal with refugees, bridging gap between cultures
December 29, 2019
STRASBURG, PA - The only Amish man in the room stood by a window and stroked his long beard, listening to a Somalian refugee talk about his new life in America. Ivan Beiler's family ate chicken pot pie and stuffed grape leaves at a nearby table with a family that had fled Syria. His wife, Martha, wore a simple white bonnet; the woman across from her, a hijab.
Goats bleated in the barn below them.
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