In 1985, Laura Fendt fell in love with a Muslim immigrant from Egypt named Kamal Hammouda. They spontaneously got married that fall. Then they got married again that winter, this time by a priest. It began more than three decades of an interfaith union that many people, Muslim and non-Muslim, still don’t think should exist.

What happens when a devout Muslim and devout Christian commit to each other, especially when neither sees a need to convert? We went to small-town Iowa to find out.

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