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Firewalkers dance across a bed of burning coals in a ritual in honor of St. Constantine in the village of Lagkadas, Greece on Monday, May 22, 2023. Firewalking is the most spectacular and public of these annual rituals that also include dancing with icons, prayer, and shared meals by associations of devotees of the Christian Orthodox saint called "anastenaria" that have held similar celebrations for centuries. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

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Firewalkers in Greece honor Saint Constantine in mystery-shrouded, centuries-old rituals
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Thu,05/25/23-7:04AM , 133 Reads
LAGKADAS, Greece (AP) — Sotirios Gkaintatzis danced across burning coals, his stomping bare feet raising sparks and puffs of smoke as he held aloft an icon of Saints Constantine and Helen.
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'Hermanos' Fidel Trujillo, left, and Leo Paul Pacheco, look at the kitchen recently built with adobe next to the 1860s 'morada' de San Isidro, which is the main chapel and meeting point of their Catholic brotherhood, outside Holman, New Mexico, Saturday, April 15, 2023. New Mexican Spanish is as central to these communities' identity as their iconic adobe churches, and its best chance of survival might be through faith, too. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

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New Mexican Spanish, a unique American dialect, survives mostly in prayers
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Mon,05/22/23-7:05AM , 132 Reads
HOLMAN, N.M. (AP) — On a spring Saturday afternoon, two “hermanos” knelt to pray in the chapel of their Catholic brotherhood of St. Isidore the Farmer, nestled by the pine forest outside this hamlet in a high mountain valley.
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Crop farmer Bob Worth plants corn in one of the many fields on his family's 2,100 acres in Lake Benton, Minn., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Worth is a third-generation farmer who battled depression in the early '80s and now advocates for further help and deeper conversations around mental health and suicide prevention. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Saving the farm: Heartland clergy train to prevent agriculture workers’ suicides
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Thu,05/18/23-7:11AM , 136 Reads
LAKE BENTON, Minn. (AP) — With traces of winter’s unusually heavy snow still lingering but a warm sun finally shining, farmers were out dawn to dusk in early May on their tractors, planting corn and soybeans across southwestern Minnesota fields many have owned for generations.
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Venezuelan migrant Said Jose, left, asks for help from Jesuit priest Daniel Mora while looking his girlfriend who he got separated with during his detention, at the shelter run by the Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas, Friday, May 12, 2023. The border between the U.S. and Mexico was relatively calm Friday, offering few signs of the chaos that had been feared following a rush by worried migrants to enter the U.S. before the end of pandemic-related immigration restrictions. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

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In El Paso, pastors offer waiting migrants shelter and counsel
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Fri,05/12/23-7:03AM , 120 Reads
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — As changing policies, rampant misinformation and exasperated, fearful crowds converge in this desert city, faith leaders are striving to provide shelter and uplift.
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