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Grandmother's Rosary Is An Anchor To Family Around The World

6:21am December 26, 2018

NPR's Isabel Lara lived close to the World Trade Center and after Sept. 11, she wasn't allowed to return home for a week. The only thing she could think about was one thing she left behind: a rosary.

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Chinese Authorities Raid 2 Prominent Independent Churches

5:36am December 26, 2018

by Rob Schmitz

Authorities in China have been conducting church raids and arresting prominent pastors that the government believes are a threat to the state.

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Trump Attends Christmas Eve Service That Had A Message About Migrants

4:32pm December 25, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro speak with Mariann Budde, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, about the Christmas Eve service she led at the Washington National Cathedral, which President Trump and the First Lady attended.

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Pope Francis delivers his Christmas Day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Tuesday.

Pope Francis Calls For Fraternity In Christmas Day Address

3:58pm December 25, 2018

by Francesca Paris

The pope, an outspoken advocate for refugees and migrants, urged the international community to set aside its differences and turn its attention to crises around the world.

An overwhelming majority of evangelical Christians continue to support President Trump, despite allegations of infidelity.

For Evangelicals, A Year Of Reckoning On Sexual Sin And Support For Donald Trump

5:22pm December 24, 2018

by Tom Gjelten

Evangelicals in 2018 had to defend their views on sexual sin, given their willingness to overlook Donald Trump's infidelity and reports of sexual misconduct by their own pastors.

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Filipinos pose for souvenir shots at the "Christmas House" owned by businessman Alexander Cruz in suburban Cainta, Rizal province, Philippines, on Dec. 12, 2017. The whole house, decorated with hundreds of thousands of LED lights, has attracted local and

Love The Holidays? The Philippines Celebrates 4 Months Of Christmas Mania

10:03am December 24, 2018

by Julie McCarthy

Counting down from September, nine days of Mass, heaps of roast pig, colorful lights and festivities all over the place — the Filipinos know how to make the season bright, and eternal.

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Youth pastor Kyle Smith of First Assembly of God Paradise reads from the Bible on his phone because his copy of the book burned in the Camp Fire. His congregation is one of several now worshiping with congregations in Chico.

'Blessings Come In' As Churches Take In Refugee Congregations After The Camp Fire

8:01am December 23, 2018

by Rachael Myrow

Chico, Calif., has had to make room for thousands of refugees and several displaced congregations after California's deadliest and most destructive fire destroyed the town of Paradise in Butte County.

Devotees of Lord Ayyappa, the deity of the Sabarimala temple in India's Kerala state, protest a Supreme Court verdict in Ahmadabad, India, in October. The temple had barred women of menstruating age from entering the temple, but India's Supreme Court stru

India's Supreme Court Orders Hindu Temple To Open Doors To Women, But Devotees Object

4:24pm December 22, 2018

No women ages 10 to 50 have been able to reach the temple since the ruling in September. "I'll block younger women with my own body if I have to," says a woman who waited until age 53 to visit.

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Embroidery thread, a picture of the baby Jesus and gold coins are some of the objects people took with them as they fled their homes.

What They Took With Them As They Fled Conflicts

8:23am December 22, 2018

As people escape from turmoil around the world, they often can carry only a few items with them. In hindsight these objects are often precious reminders of the lives they left behind.

In the video game Darshan Diversion, avatars of women in red saris try to reach the top of a temple but are thwarted by Hindu priests if a red blinking light indicates that the women are menstruating.

Menstruating Women Are Blocked From Temple In Video Game — And In Real Life

7:12am December 22, 2018

by Sushmita Pathak

In Darshan Diversion, avatars of menstruating women dodge Hindu priests trying to bar them from a temple. Meanwhile, women of childbearing age can't enter India's Sabarimala temple — for real.