‘The only thing that I could do was to pray’: The faith behind the Hollywood film Thirteen Lives
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Piyamary Shinoda2022-07-28T09:15:00
As Ron Howard’s film about the Thai football team trapped in a cave is released in the UK, one of the children tells the story of his faith and the future that followed his miraculous rescue
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