Most of the Americans who supported these efforts were conservative rural Americans who believed in the traditional ideas of the Protestant Christian church.
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Not far away is a Protestantchurch that draws 3, 000 souls to its weekend services.
The opposition she joined was tiny, mostly confined to a few parishes in the Protestantchurch, heavily infiltrated by the Stasi and weakened by the systematic exile of its leaders to the West.