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The Washington National Cathedral is seen closed on Good Friday due to coronavirus pandemic on April 10, 2020. - The global coronavirus death toll topped 100,000 Friday as Easter celebrations around the world kicked off in near-empty churches with billions of people stuck indoors to halt the pandemic's deadly worldwide march. Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images

Nation Dec 15

WATCH: The National Cathedral tolls bell marking 800,000 American COVID-19 deaths

By News Desk

Nation Dec 09

U.S. President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris watch the cakset of late Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole during a memorial service honoring Dole at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2021. Photo by Leah Millis/REUTERS
WATCH: Bob Dole memorial services held at the National Cathedral and World War II monument

Bob Dole has been honored at a funeral service at Washington National Cathedral as top leaders from both parties gathered to display the kind of bipartisanship now rare in modern government.

By Will Weissert, Colleen Long, Associated Press

Politics Jun 23

WATCH: Biden attends the funeral of former Sen. John W. Warner at the National Cathedral

President Joe Biden on Wednesday mourned his former Senate colleague, Virginia's John Warner, as a “man of conscience, character and honor" who was deeply committed to God and country.

By Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press

Nation Jun 10

The Washington National Cathedral is seen closed on Good Friday due to coronavirus pandemic on April 10, 2020. - The global coronavirus death toll topped 100,000 Friday as Easter celebrations around the world kicked off in near-empty churches with billions of people stuck indoors to halt the pandemic's deadly worldwide march. Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images
WATCH: National Cathedral rings bells in memory of 600k+ U.S. citizens lost to COVID-19

The landmark Washington National Cathedral marked COVID-19's grim death toll of an estimated 600,000 Americans lost to the disease by tolling its mourning bell 600 times - once for every 1,000 dead on Thursday afternoon.

By Associated Press

Health Mar 16

WATCH: National Cathedral clergy receive COVID-19 vaccine

The clergy of the U.S. National Cathedral in Washington D.C. are expected to receive a COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.

By News Desk

Jan 21

WATCH: Biden, Harris participate in virtual national prayer service

By Associated Press

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will participate in a national prayer service from the White House in honor of their inauguration.

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Jun 10

Watch 8:00
The painstaking process of repairing a damaged cathedral

By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport

The Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., sustained major damage during a rare 2011 earthquake. Nearly eight years later, reconstruction is still underway at the country's second-largest church. Jeffrey Brown visited the landmark to learn more about the long and…

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Dec 05

Watch 15:54
Washington bids farewell to President George H.W. Bush

Family, friends, former presidents and foreign dignitaries gathered Wednesday to honor President George H.W. Bush at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Among those eulogizing the American war hero and political patriarch was his oldest son, President George W. Bush,…

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Dec 05

Watch 14:42
Untold anecdotes of George H.W. Bush

It's difficult to sum up an entire life in a memorial service, no matter how grand. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, presidential historian Michael Beschloss, Bush family friend David Bates and Margaret Warner, who covered the president on the…

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Oct 26

Matthew Shepard laid to rest in Washington, 20 years after killing

By Juliet Linderman, Associated Press

More than 2,000 people gathered at the Episcopal cathedral, the second-largest cathedral in the country, to celebrate Shepard's life, mourn his death and honor his memory.

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