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Church of Scientology lawyer Patrick Maisonneuve, left, speaks to reporters after a court returned a verdict of fraud against the group, at a Paris courthouse on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary president Charles Kelley tells the 28 inmates in the Christian Ministry program that without a hand in the glove, the glove is worthless, and so they are the hand in God's glove of prison ministry, during his May 20, 2009 address at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Southern Baptist leaders like Kelley believe they need to adopt innovative techniques to reach out to potential members, including minorities.
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** FILE ** Faiza Silmi, a 32-year-old Moroccan, walks in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, France, 24 miles southwest of Paris, on Jan. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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** FILE ** Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is pictured in March 2003 shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. (AP Photo, File)
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Illustration: Good Friday.
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**FILE** Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in March 2003. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Bishop Roger Vangheluwe of Bruges, Belgium, pictured here in February 2007, was Belgium's longest serving bishop when he stepped down on Friday, April 23, 2010, after admitting to sexually abusing a young boy about 25 years ago. The resignation of the 74-year-old bishop was the first in Belgium after a child-abuse scandal began engulfing the Roman Catholic Church in 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Maenhoudt, File)
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** FILE ** Worshippers attend Mass at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009, after an expert commission reported that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin had covered up decades of child abuse by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims. (AP Photo/Press Association, Niall Carson)
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**FILE** Riot police stand guard in front of the residence of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva during a demonstration in Bangkok by Red Shirt anti-government protesters on April 12, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Pittsburgh police in riot gear redeploy Thursday after confrontations with protesters near the Strip District in Pittsburgh. Hundreds of demonstrators marched in protest of the G-20 summit, which is expected to begin in Pittsburgh on Thursday. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Thai Buddhist monks pray for peace as anti-government demonstrators gather to shout insults at police outside police headquarters on Friday, April 9, 2010, in Bangkok. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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** FILE ** Israeli police walk through the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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** FILE ** Monsignor David M. O'Connell, former president of Catholic University of America, speaks last month during the Catholic University of America commencement ceremony. He has been replaced by John Garvey, the former dean of Boston College Law School.
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An anti-government protester lights a firecracker against Thai soldiers Tuesday, May 18, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Thai government rejected a proposal Tuesday for peace talks with leaders of the Red Shirt protesters to end the deadly mayhem gripping Bangkok, saying negotiations cannot start until the protesters disperse. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The Rev. Franklin Graham was at the Pentagon on Thursday to pray on a sidewalk outside the building. His invitation to participate in National Prayer Day there was rescinded after Muslim members of the military complained that he smeared their religion in 2001 remarks in the Wall Street Journal.
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A Nigerian soldier stands guard outside the central mosque in Jos, Nigeria, in January after violence resulted in the deaths of both Christians and Muslims. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom puts Nigeria in the company of China, Iran and other top violators of religious freedom. (File photo, Associated Press)
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Middle school students in Hacienda Heights, Calif., learn Chinese language and culture as part of the Confucius Classroom grant program. The middle-class town, about 16 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, has a history of racial tensions between longtime residents and relatively recent Chinese newcomers. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The head of the Catholic Church in Kenya, Cardinal John Njue, carries a cross through the streets of Nairobi on Good Friday. A century ago, most of Christianity was in Europe and elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere. Today, 20 percent of the world's Christians live south of the Sahara Desert.
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** FILE ** Thai Buddhist monks walk near a police line on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, in central Bangkok. (AP Photo/Wason Waintchakorn)
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During a tour of the Capitol in July, rabbis and imams from abroad take time to look at a statue of Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish missionary. The Muslim and Jewish clerics were on an interfaith tour of the United States. "Here in the United States, there is much more cooperation between Jews and Muslims than in Europe," said Rabbi Izhak Dayan, the chief rabbi of Geneva. (The Washington Times)
