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In the 1950s, when there was still a draft forcing many young men into military service, a group of Quakers, mostly from Alabama, decided their religious commitment to nonviolence forced them to leave the US rather than bear arms. They moved to Costa Rica in Central America, and helped that country preserve and develop its forests\u2014so much so it is now among the world\u2019s most popular destinations for eco-tourists. Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Quaker community in Monteverde, Costa Rica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI was looking for a place where I could practice empathy,\u201d says Randall Smith. \u201cI\u2019m looking for a place to practice tolerance. I\u2019m looking for a place to practice compassion, love, truth. What I found in the Friends community is a place to do that that is safe, that is a very large tent. The great part of that is I ended up joining the most unorganized organized religion I could find.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":31217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-international","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"\nQuakers in Costa Rica | June 24, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/06\/24\/quakers-costa-rica\/31089\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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