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In the face of unrelenting snow, New England churches soldier on

c. 2015 Religion News Service

(RNS) New Englanders, clobbered by four major storms in the past month and bracing for a fifth, are finding it difficult to travel anywhere, including to services on Sundays.

Andrew Cryans of Durham, N.H.—where more than 45 inches of snow fell in the past week alone—can’t help but notice that most of these meteorological whoppers have arrived on weekends, so that churchgoers might have a harder time getting to church than, say, school or work.