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I was genuinely touched, and I found myself in tears during the prayer,” Chow told the Sunday Examiner, the official ...

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Praying to a repatriated statue of a Hindu god ... Thomas Cristofoletti for The New York Times Som Preksa, 27, a Buddhist monk and a recent university graduate who was standing near the entrance gate ...