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Some climb for faith, others for the views. This Chinese sacred mountain draws them all (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! WUDANG, China (AP) — A banknote clasped between her hands, Liu Haiyan prayed to the protector of the Wudang mountains. The range in central China has long been considered sacred in Taoism. “I asked him to bless our motherland with favorable weather and to make it even more prosperous,” Liu said while sitting outside the Golden Hall, a Taoist temple at the summit of Tianzhu Peak. “This place watches over our countr
She lived to see ‘Deb’s law’ take effect. Now she can choose how she dies (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! CHICAGO (AP) — Deb Robertson counted the days, hoping she’d live long enough for a new Illinois law to go into effect that allows terminally ill people like her to use a lethal prescription to end their lives. A diagnosis of a rare, aggressive form of cancer had forced her into retirement after three decades of working with homeless youth. As the disease quickly spread through her body, she felt “like a walking ti
A traditional Chinese coffin maker in Malaysia preserves a fading family craft (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! MUAR, Malaysia (AP) — It’s been 52 years since Goh Khuay Par carved his first Mei Hua coffin. The traditional Chinese design takes its name from the plum blossom, or “mei hua” in Mandarin, and has been part of his family’s trade in Malaysia for three generations. “My father was my master,” said Goh, now 69, at the modest workshop he runs with his brother in the town of Muar, about 175 kilometers (110 miles) southe
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