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“There is freedom in the house of God,” sang Juan Carlos Calderon quietly to himself, his hands drawn up to his chin in prayer.

“This guy was not an idiot as he looked at us. He said, ‘You don’t have to be out here, this is the house of God.

In a message to his congregation days after the cathedral went up in flames, he called it a house of God, but a home to all.

"Why didn't you let a fallen hero, the third from this village, into the house of God?!" a bearded man bellowed at an ashen-faced priest holding a wooden cross.

An Ottoman-era curtain, intricately embroidered with metal threads, which was part of the covering of the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure in Mecca that Muslims consider the metaphorical “house of God.”