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Every morning, Jackie Avelar wakes up to a predicament. On one side of her bed is a clock that sounds the Islamic call to prayer five times a day. On the other side is a statue of Mary. As a Muslim, she wants to remove it. As a Latina, she can't. Her father, who is a Catholic from El Salvador, wants the statue to stay. "I have to respect him," Avelar said. < break> So she has found a comfortable balance: She covers the statue with a photo of her family. Across the nation, thousands of Latino immigrants are redefining...