Soon, people outside the sect began to seek out Quakers as trading partners, suppliers and sellers.
Most Burundians are Catholic and the official church has distanced itself from the sect.
And as Quaker prosperity grew, people drew a connection between that prosperity and the sect's reputation for reliability and trustworthiness.
The sect, formed more than a year ago, has developed a following across the country and in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
The sect has had a tense relationship with Burundi's government since its formation, says Florentine Kwizera of the BBC's Great Lakes Service.
The sect, which typically speaks to journalists in telephone conference calls at times of its choosing, could not be reached for comment Sunday.
Because they dissented from the Church of England, members of the sect were barred from the professions and as a result gravitated toward business.
The sect was literally unearthed August 1 in a suburb of the city of Kazan in Russia's mainly Muslim Tatarstan region during an investigation into militant groups.
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The new holy book compiles Guru Ravidass' writings, which until now were predominantly found in sacred Sikh scriptures that the sect placed in its houses of worship.
Paul, who welcomed uncircumcised and trayf-eating Gentiles into the sect.
He told the Los Angeles Times he attempted to see his mother on Mother's Day but she told him to stay away, on the orders of the sect's leaders.
Last year, police destroyed a sanctuary of the sect in Kayanza - its stronghold - and its followers retaliated by breaking up a Sunday service at a local Catholic church, she says.
The sect leader refused to speak during the sentencing portion of the trial, with a defence lawyer telling the judge his client had instructed his legal team not to speak for him.
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"If it would have stayed alive, there would have been at least a memory of this young couple for the grandparents, the family, the community, " said Isaac Abraham, a family friend and member of the sect.
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The isolated sect now dominates the towns of Colorado City, in Arizona, and Hildale, in Utah, less than a mile away.
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In 18th- and early 19th-century Britain a sizable chunk of the nation's economy was run by members of the religious sect known as the Quakers.
While most Malians are Muslims, the majority belong to the Sufi sect, not the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam followed by the Ansar Dine and Mujao rebel groups.
His temple belongs to the Shingon sect, whose central rite is the fire ceremony, goma, in which novice monks burn pine branches and recite sutras for seven days.
So sayeth the leader of the Dhammakaya sect, a Thai Buddhist version of the prosperity gospel hustle.
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The ICC has said Kenyatta and a co-perpetrator directed the outlawed sect to attack opposition members and rival tribes during the postelection unrest.
At the same time, the number of Shia MPs has risen from five to nine, closer to the minority sect's 20%-plus share of the population.
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Both cases come from within the Satmar Hasidic sect, the official said.
The first Shias, of course, were Arabs, who split from the larger Sunni sect in the seventh century over the succession to the prophet Muhammad.
Saudi billionaire (and member of the ruling sect) Alwaleed Bin Talal owns big stakes in Citigroup, The Walt Disney Co.
Its biggest competitors in the clothing sect suffered no such slumps this past quarter.
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The example of Holland proved that a toleration of sects dissenting from the established sect was safe, and even useful.
They are discovering that it is left-leaning, sensible-looking, and not the nutty sect of Welsh-language zealots that Labour had warned them to stay away from.
Tensions between the Yazidi sect and local Muslims have grown since a Yazidi girl was reportedly stoned by her community in April for converting to Islam.
The two attacks raise new questions over whether the extremist sect, targeted by Nigeria's police and military, has picked a new soft target in its guerrilla campaign of shootings and bombings across the nation.
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