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Sister Carrie Ann McKeown, left, and Sister Veronica Hanson, both with the Franciscan Sisters TOR of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother in Steubenville, Ohio, pray during the Mass for Life at the Verizon Center. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Priests come down the escalator at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. after administering communion to the thousands of people in attendance at the Youth Rally and Mass for Life Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, celebrated the mass. This year there was an overflow mass at the D.C. Armory. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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People file back into the arena at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. after receiving communion Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 at the Youth Rally and Mass for Life. Because there were so many people in attendance, communion stations were offered in several places throughout the center. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Archbishop of Washington, Donald Wuerl, waves to the crowd as he exits the stage following the celebration of mass at the Youth Rally and Mass for Life at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Saad el-Katatni, a lawmaker from the Muslim Brotherhood, is the first speaker of the newly elected People's Assembly.
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Female People's Assembly members from the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party attend the chamber's opening session.
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Egyptian protesters carry their national flag outside the People's Assembly building in Cairo during the assembly's opening session Monday. The newly elected assembly, which is made up overwhelmingly of Islamists, will elect a panel to draft a new constitution. Elections for the chamber were the first since Hosni Mubarak's ouster. (Associated Press)
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Muslim men at a mosque in Kano, Nigeria, pray on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, for peace and for people who lost their lives during attacks over the weekend. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Protesters in Sanaa, Yemen, react after receiving the news of the departure of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh for Oman on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, said the popular website will black out its English-language version for a day on Wednesday to protest anti-piracy bills, which he contends “set a frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the world.” (Associated Press)
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A man is dragged away from the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States during an anti-death penalty protest, sponsored by the Abolition Action Committee, in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. There were 14 arrests. The protests are timed to mark the 35th anniversary of the execution of Gary Gilmore, who protesters said was the first person executed under the Supreme Court's upholding of the death penalty in 1976. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A tuberculosis patient, Mohammed Shamim Sheikh, is seen through an X-ray of his chest in Mumbai. (Associated Press)
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Protesters demand the prosecution of Yemeni President Ali Abdulla Saleh, who has been igniting unrest for a year. (Associated Press)
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Angry youths protest and shout slogans Jan. 16, 2012, in Lagos, Nigeria. For the first time since protests erupted over spiraling fuel prices, soldiers barricaded key roads in Nigeria's two biggest cities as the president offered a concession to stem demonstrations he said were being stoked by provocateurs seeking anarchy. (Associated Press)
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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/The Sun News, Janet Blackmon Morgan)
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Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry bows his head in prayer at a Faith and Freedom Coalition prayer breakfast in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Sunday. No state is more under siege by the federal government than South Carolina, and the Texas governor is arguably the GOP field's best advocate for states' rights. (Associated Press)
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Protesters sit on the ground surrounded by Romanian police in University Square, the scene of the first anti-communist protest in 1989, in Bucharest, Romania. (Associated Press)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination during a stop at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Mitt Romney celebrates with supporters, his wife, Ann, and five sons at Tuesday's victory party in New Hampshire. A survey with no church ties found that 56 percent of Mormons think the country is "ready" to consider a member of their faith as president. (Associated Press)
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"The interest of society in the enforcement of employment discrimination statutes is undoubtedly important. But so too is the interest of religious groups in choosing who will preach their beliefs, teach their faith, and carry out their mission." - Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. (AP photo)
