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Associated Press CANTON, S.D. — The Nativity stable at Canton Lutheran Church will be silent this year, breaking from a community tradition of gathering for a live Christmas performance. Instead, churches in this rural corner of South Dakota are grappling with how to approach an Advent filled with quiet mourning after the coronavirus tore through the region. Church announcements are marked not with parties and performances, but with deaths. South Dakota and North Dakota, states largely spared...

Hurting for hope, South Dakota rural churches mark Advent by Stephen Groves, The Associated Press Posted Dec 19, 2020 9:47 am EDT Last Updated Dec 19, 2020 at 9:56 am EDT CANTON, S.D. — The Nativity stable at Canton Lutheran Church will be silent this year, breaking from a community tradition of gathering for a live Christmas performance. Instead, churches in this rural corner of South Dakota are grappling with how to approach an Advent filled with quiet mourning after the coronavirus tore th...

CANTON, S.D. (AP) — The Nativity stable at Canton Lutheran Church will be silent this year, breaking from a community tradition of gathering for a live Christmas performance. Instead, churches in this rural corner of South Dakota are grappling with how to approach an Advent filled with quiet mourning after the coronavirus tore through the region. Church announcements are marked not with parties and performances, but with deaths. South Dakota and North Dakota, states largely spared from the wo...