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Vietnamese fishermen wait to be registered by Catholic Charities at a community center in New Orleans. Many are facing financial disaster after rebuilding their lives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina five years ago. (Associated Press)
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A demonstration in April erupts in a scuffle between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian who was protesting the construction of a barrier that makes it difficult for Palestinians to reach farmland, schools and medical care. (Associated Press)
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Nationalist protesters brandish the Irish flag during clashes with police in Belfast on Monday. Police struggled to quell rioting by Irish Catholic nationalists after a day of mass Protestant parades. (Associated Press)
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Visitors to the Christian Home Educators Fellowship Conference and Curriculum Fair look over study aids on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, in St. Charles, Mo. Many home-school associations hold conferences that include exhibits on curriculum and a variety of workshops. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Nationalist protesters brandish the Irish tricolour flag during clashes with police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, late Monday July 12, 2010. Police struggled Monday overnight till early Tuesday, to quell rioting by Irish Catholic nationalists in several parts of Northern Ireland following a day of mass Protestant parades, an annual event that often pushes sectarian animosity past boiling point. (AP Photo)
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Nationalist protesters build barricades across the street during clashes with police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, late Monday July 12, 2010. Police struggled Monday overnight till early Tuesday, to quell rioting by Irish Catholic nationalists in several parts of Northern Ireland following a day of mass Protestant parades, an annual event that often pushes sectarian animosity past boiling point. (AP Photo / Niall Carson, PA)
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A car explodes in front of a line of police cars as nationalist protesters clash with police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, late Monday, July 12, 2010. Police struggled Monday overnight until early Tuesday to quell rioting by Irish Catholic nationalists in several parts of Northern Ireland following a day of mass Protestant parades, an annual event that often pushes sectarian animosity past boiling point. (AP Photo / Niall Carson, PA)
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Police and nationalist protesters clash before an Orange Order march in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. (AP Photo / Niall Carson, PA)
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Police remove nationalist protesters before an Orange Order march in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Monday July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. (AP Photo)
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Mohammed Ssebulime is comforted at end of a prayer service at the Christ Community United Methodist Church for members of the church mission group in Uganda on Monday, July 12, 2010 in Selinsgrove, Pa. His wife Lori was with the church mission group at the time of a bomb blast at the Ethiopian Village Restaurant on Sunday. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)
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Anat Hoffman, left, chairwoman of the Women of the Wall organization, holds on to a Torah scroll as Israeli police attempt to take it from her and detain her outside the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, Monday, July 12, 2010. Ms. Hoffman was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at a Judiasm's holiest site on Monday in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Israeli and international members of the Women of the Wall organization are seen through a screen as they pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, July 12, 2010. Anat Hoffman, the chairwoman of the Women of the Wall, was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at a Judaism's holiest site on Monday in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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An Israeli member of the Women of the Wall organization prays outside a police station after Anat Hoffman, not pictured, the chairwoman of their organization, was detained outside the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, July 12, 2010. Ms. Hoffman was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at a Judaism's holiest site on Monday in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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An Israeli member of the Women of the Wall organization prays outside a police station after Anat Hoffman, not pictured, the chairwoman for their organization, was detained outside the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, July 12, 2010. Ms. Hoffman was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at a Judaism's holiest site on Monday in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Israeli and international members of the Women of the Wall organization pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, July 12, 2010. Anat Hoffman, the chairwoman for the Women of the Wall, was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at a Judaism's holiest site on Monday in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Anat Hoffman, center, chairwoman of the Women of the Wall organization, holds on to a Torah scroll as Israeli police attempt to take it from her and detain her outside the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, Monday, July 12, 2010. Ms. Hoffman was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at Judaism's holiest site on Monday, in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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In this April 12, 2010, file photo top administration counter-terror deputy John Brennan addresses reporters during a briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, right, in Washington. The Obama administration's recent move to drop references to Islamic radicalism in order to build relations with Muslim nations is drawing fire in a new report warning the decision ignores the role religion can play in motivating terrorists. Explaining the shift, Mr. Brennan said terror leaders "play into the false perception that they are religious leaders defending a holy cause, when in fact they are nothing more than murderers, including the murder of thousands upon thousands of Muslims." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a religious ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, July 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Laura Pollan speaks with hospitalized dissident Guillermo Farinas on the phone after Cuba's Roman Catholic Church said that the government has agreed to free 52 political prisoners and allow them to leave the country in Havana on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Ms. Pollan is the leader of Ladies in White, an organization made up of wives and mothers of political prisoners, and her husband Hector Maseda is one of the 52 people expected to be released. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
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Iraqi security forces are seen on the street as Shi'ite pilgrims head to the Imam Moussa Kadhim shrine, on the final day of the annual commemoration of the saint's death, in the Shi'ite district of Kazimiyah in Baghdad, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of devout Shi'ites from across the country walk to Baghdad to take part in the occasion. Iraqi officials say a handful of have been killed by bombs targeting pilgrims taking part in the final day of the Shi'ite religious holiday, a day after scores of pilgrims were killed Wednesday in a suicide attack as they passed through a Sunni neighborhood.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
