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**FILE** Protesters run as riot police officers use tear gas during a demonstration in the center of Tunis on Jan. 18. (Associated Press)
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Orthodox Jewish children gather outside a school in Beni Brak, Israel, on Thursday. Dramatic changes may be coming in Israel. Demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country. (Associated Press)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Satmar sect followers gather during the funeral of Rabbi Yeshayahu Deutsch in the religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on Thursday. Ultra-Orthodox Jews — known in Hebrew as "Haredim," or "those who tremble" before God — have a birthrate far higher than that of other Israeli Jews, with 10 children not uncommon, and they seem poised to become far more numerous and influential. (Associated Press)
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Singing "We Shall Overcome" during a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church honoring the 25th federal observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, in Atlanta are (from left) Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed; the Rev. Bernice King and Martin Luther King III, two of King's children; Christine King Farris, the late civil rights leader's sister; Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; and Sen. Johnny Isakson, Georgia Republican. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Christian Bale holds up his trophy for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for his role in "The Fighter," during the Golden Globe Awards Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful at the end of the Angelus prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011. Benedict told pilgrims that he was praying for people in Australia, Brazil, the Philippines and Sri Lanka who are suffering because of "devastating" flooding. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the leader of Catholics in England and Wales, oversees the ordination of three former Anglican bishops, John Broadhurst, Andrew Burnham and Keith Newton as Catholic priests in Westminster Cathedral, London, on Saturday Jan. 15, 2011. The three have become the first to take advantage of a program announced by the Vatican in 2009 to accommodate Anglicans unhappy about the direction their church is taking. (AP Photo/John Stillwell/PA)
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Protesters run to leave the demonstration as police throw teargas in Tunis, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. Tunisia's president declared a state of emergency and announced that he would fire his government as violent protests escalated Friday, with gunfire echoing in the North African country's usually calm capital and police lobbing tear gas at protesters. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Protesters chant slogans against President Zine El Abidine Ben Aliin during a demonstration in Tunis, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Pakistani demonstrators shout slogans against recent statements by Pope Benedict XVI about Pakistan's blasphemy laws, next to burning tires during a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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**FILE** Pope John Paul II (Associated Press)
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Salvation Army "soldier" Daniel Aherns collects donations on Fifth Avenue at Rockefeller Center in New York in 2011. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Nov. 2, 2010, photo made available by the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, Pope Benedict XVI prays before the tomb of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, during traditional All Soul's Day prayers in the Grottoes of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, File)
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Roxanna Green (center), mother of 9-year-old shooting victim Christina Taylor Green, is shown during a community Mass at St. Odilia Catholic Church in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, to mourn the victims of Saturday's shooting. (AP Photo/Greg Bryan, Pool)
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Iranian Christians attend Christmas Mass at St. Grigor Armenian Catholic Church in Tehran on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Iran has arrested about 70 Christians since Christmas in a crackdown that demonstrates the limits of religious tolerance by Islamic leaders, who often boast they provide room for other faiths. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) **FILE**
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Saleh Darelsalam of San Diego places her ballot in the box during a referendum vote on whether South Sudan will become independent from Sudan, at St. James Catholic Church in Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. The polling place in Glendale was one of only eight in the United States. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)
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Daniel Chol, 2, looks around as his mother, Josephena Thal, left, of Phoenix, prepares her ballot in a referendum vote on whether South Sudan will become independent from Sudan, at St. James Catholic Church in Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. The polling place in Glendale was one of only eight in the United States. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)
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Pere Mestre, left, and Joan Bauza, right, point to their places in a calendar photo at a bar in Sant Joan, Mallorca, Spain on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. Seeking to raise money for their Roman Catholic youth group on the island, members came up with a risque idea: Pose nearly nude for a calendar recreating scenes from the Passion of Christ. (AP Photo/Manu Mielniezuk)
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A woman wih a child holds a candle to mark the Orthodox Christmas Mass at a church in Grozny, the capital of the predominantly Muslim Russian region of Chechnya on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. Christmas falls on Jan. 7 for Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, Russia and other Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 16th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics and Protestants and commonly used in secular life around the world. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
