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...rows of candles bearing the images of Saint David, Saint Raphael and Saint Jude. But she overlooks those and grabs two candles featuring Santa Muerte - Saint Death. "She's my patron saint," says Martinez, 24, who arrived here from a town outside Mexico City about six years ago. "You worship her," she says of Santa Muerte. "It's my religion...
...Vassanji's The Assassin's Song is a more complex but ultimately less satisfying examination of similar turf. The central character, Karsan, is destined to be the latest in a centuries-long familial line to inherit the Shrine of the Wanderer, an important place of Sufi worship in India's Gujarat state. But as a young man he falls out with his father and loses his faith, escaping to North America instead. When he returns, after the riots that ripped apart Gujarat in 2002, Karsan is forced to re-examine his beliefs, his family and himself...
...year old girls reading this, you can take down your Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy posters; I’ve got new idols you can worship...
...week around the cathedral to allow throngs of believers the chance to be included in the service via satellite screens. Casually perched on a fence near the cathedral's entrance, Ugandan development worker Chris Amwine gestures to the gathering crowd. Says Amwine, "This is how you're supposed to worship - we believe we should be together praying, not watching a service on television at home...
Some will wonder if a gaggle of congregations praying under the Church of Uganda will make any difference in the way Americans worship. U.S. Episcopalians represent a hugely wealthy segment of the Anglican communion, but they are declining in numbers. Uganda's Anglican church-attending population has boomed from 2.5 to 9.6 million over the past 30 years. The church in America, however, has had no discernible growth...