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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - It's eight hours into the service and the congregation is still dancing. Shout, they're told. Yell out to the Lord. Their cries melt into a muggy night that smells of sweating bodies, jasmine and the tropical musk of the Nigerian bushland.
"Hallelujah!" rumbles the head pastor as the church band kicks into a new number. "Hal-le-luuuuuuu-jah."
Even from the heights of the pulpit, he can't see the far edges of the crowd. More than 300,000 have come for the once-a-month, all-night, Pentecostal-style revival led by a preacher most simply call Daddy.
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