Religion_Belief

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A woman lights a candle among pictures of slain Iraqi Christians at Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Muslim militants took 120 hostages at the church on Oct. 31 in a siege that left 68 dead. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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"With our blood and soul, we redeem the cross," Coptic Christians chant after Mass on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011, at Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt, where 21 were killed by a suicide bomber. They carried a blood-spattered poster depicting Jesus. (AP Photo)

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Washington D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh delivers her speech after being sworn-in at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Coptic Christians weep under the broken remains of a sign celebrating "2011" Sunday in the blood-spattered Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt. Just after a New Year's Mass, 21 worshippers were killed and about 100 wounded in an apparent suicide bombing. (Associated Press)

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Ahlam Fawzy Saber (center), an Egyptian Coptic Christian who lost two of her sisters and a niece in an apparent suicide bombing during midnight Mass, is helped back into the Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt, after collapsing from emotion following morning Mass on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Grieving Christians, many clad in black, were back praying Sunday in the blood-spattered church, where 21 worshippers were killed in the blast. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** Firemen try to put out a vehicle blaze following a car bombing in front of a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, early on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. The car exploded in front of the church as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass in the Mediterranean port city, killing at least seven people, officials said. (AP Photo)

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Egyptian riot police form a line behind an upturned and burnt car outside the Coptic Christian Saints Church, unseen, in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, Egypt, on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. A car exploded in front of the church early Saturday as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass, killing at least 21 people according to officials. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) holds his son Baylen after the NFL Super Bowl XLIV football game against the Indianapolis Colts on Feb. 7, 2010 in Miami. The Saints won 31-17. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Florida State quarterback Christian Ponder calls a play during practice for the Chick-fil-A Bowl NCAA college football game against South Carolina Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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A commemorative reprint of the 1611 King James Version of the Holy Bible (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Associated Press photographs Members of the Islamic community pray at the market square in downtown Moenchengladbach, western Germany, in September. The Islamic fundamentalist group 'Invitation to Paradise' was performing public prayers to fight back against weeks of protests by locals against its plan for building a Koranic school.

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Wilfried Schultz, chairman of an initiative against the Koranic school in Moenchengladbach, Germany, says, "We are not going to tolerate that these Islamists undermine our liberal German values."

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Pope Benedict XVI greets his luncheon guests inside the Vatican's main audience hall on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. Lasagna, veal and cake were on the menu as the pope dined with 250 poor people as well as seminarians, priests and nuns from Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity order, which runs soup kitchens around Rome. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

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Philippine National Police investigators inspect the damage at the Sacred Heart Catholic Chapel following an explosion during a Christmas Day Mass on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, on the volatile island of Jolo, Sulu province, in the southern Philippines. (AP Photo/Nickee Butlangan)

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**FILE** Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during his annual "Urbi et Orbi" ("to the City and to the World") message at the Vatican on Christmas 2010. (Associated Press)

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Pictures of slain Iraqi Christians are displayed during Christmas Mass at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Iraqi Christians are marking a somber holiday in the face of repeated violence by militants intent on driving their beleaguered community from Iraq. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)