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Douglas McKelvey has been writing prayers in public for 20 years. This spring, his latest prayer book, Every Moment Holy: ...

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I begin by extending warm wishes to those readers currently celebrating their most solemn and important religious holidays; to Christians I wish a blessed Easter, and to Muslims a Ramadan kareem and ...

Across Africa, coming of age can mean dangerous rites of passage. We meet boys facing deadly initiations, girls rejecting FGM, and Miss World Somalia turning pain into purpose.