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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Egyptian senior clerics pray at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo during the funeral Mass for Pope Shenouda III, who headed the Coptic Orthodox Church for 40 years.
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An undated photo provided by the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council shows Bishop William E. Lori of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn. Pope Benedict XVI announced Tuesday, March 20, 2012 that Lori has been named the 16th Archbishop of Baltimore. Lori will succeed Cardinal Edwin O'Brien, who served as Baltimore's 15th archbishop from October 2007 to August 2011 when he was named grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
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Senior clerics gather to pay their final respects during the funeral Mass of Pope Shenouda III at the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Cairo on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Pupils of the Georges Brassens College in Paris and their head teacher, Marianne Dodinet (center), hold a minute of silence on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, the day after a gunman on a motorbike opened fire at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, and killed a rabbi, his two young sons and a third child. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Protesters burn portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a Feb. 26 demonstration in northern Syria. A year after protests began, the United Nations says more than 8,000 people have been killed in the crackdown. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks at First Baptist Church in Bossier City, La., on Sunday, March 18, 2012 (AP Photo/The Times, Val Horvath Davidson)
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Demonstrators hold pictures of slain protesters as they march in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, March 18, 2012, to commemorate those who were killed a year ago in a particularly bloody protest. The writing in Arabic on the banner (foreground) reads, "Overthrow the family dictatorial regime." (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, waves to supporters as he leaves after speaking at the Westminster Christian Academy on Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Town and Country, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Police arrest an Occupy Wall Street protester early on Sunday, March 18, 2012, in Zuccotti Park in New York after a march in celebration of the protest's sixth month. (AP Photo/Albert Sabate)
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** FILE ** In this April 18, 2009, file photo, Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, leads a midnight service to celebrate Christ's resurrection, at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, greets supporters at Westminster Christian Academy Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Town and Country, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams reads the Book of Common Prayer in the grounds of Lambeth Palace, in London on March 16, 2012. Williams says he is stepping down at the end of the year, closing a tumultuous decade as leader of a global Anglican communion sharply divided on issues of sexuality and gender. (Associated Press/PA Wire)
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The campaign for sainthood for Boys Town founder Father Edward Flanagan begins with a prayer service in Omaha, Neb., on Saturday. (Boys Town via Associated Press)
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Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, gestures during an interview Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Dolan, who heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that while Obama's about-face Friday initially sparked glimmers of hope in the Catholic Church, it ended up being a "hill of beans." (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Nuns were among the protesters at a South Korean rally against the trade pact, which went into effect at midnight Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (top), also called the Blue Mosque, represents the mournful character of Istanbul epitomized by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. The faded facades in the old districts are now surrounded by a striking frenzy of expansion that threatens the city's heritage, environment and identity. (Associated Press)
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A vendor sells small statues of Cuba's patron saint, La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre (Our Lady of Charity), during a Santeria ceremony at the annual Caribbean Festival in Loma del Cimarron. (Associated Press)
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A rooster is sacrificed during a Santeria ceremony in 2009 in honor of the ocean goddess Yemaya during the Cuban Caribbean Festival. Santeria has its roots in Africa but is practiced by a majority of Cubans, many more than under 10 percent practicing Roman Catholicism. (Associated Press)
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On Sunday, March 4, 2012, a priest stands outside St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, the church where Barbara Johnson was recently denied communion at her mother's funeral because she is a lesbian. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Kristin Chenoweth appears in "GCB," which has been criticized by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Mr. Gingrich cited an anti-Christian bias. (Photo courtesy ABC)
