Religion and Faith

Parishioners pray during a Sunday Mass at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Washington, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

A girl performs on a mallakhamb pole as fireworks light up the sky during the festival of lights Diwali in Mumbai, India, on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Devotees carry an idol of Hindu goddess Durga to immerse in river Brahmaputra in Guwahati, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Best-selling Christian writer and influencer Jen Hatmaker waits to be introduced to talk about her new book, "Awake," in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Nepal's newly appointed living goddess, Kumari Aryatara Shakya, is carried by her father as they walk towards Kumari Ghar, the temple palace where she will be residing in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

FILE — Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists during news conference in Rome, Sept. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Scout Troop 228 participates in the U.S. flag retirement ceremony for Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Church during the annual Patriots Day observance at the church in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Krysta Fauria)

Sister Vassa Larin, a prominent American Orthodox nun, public speaker and YouTube presenter, poses for a portrait for the Associated Press in her room before recording one of her videos in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, Sept 3. 2025. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

FILE - The Rev. Mariann Budde, bishop of Washington's Episcopal diocese, speaks during a service outside St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House in Washington, on June 19, 2020, with a Black Lives Matter banner in the background. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

People hold an outdoor prayer for the move of the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, in Kiruna, Sweden, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, two days before its move along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as part of the town's relocation. (AP Photo/Malin Haarala)

People gather outside the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, in Kiruna, Sweden, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, during its move along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as part of the town's relocation. (AP Photo/Malin Haarala)

In this image provided by Sue Dorfman, a group of Jewish clergy sit-in at the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to bring attention to the situation in Gaza, Tuesday, July 29, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Sue Dorfman via AP)