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Thousands of Haitians flock to mount Calvaire Miracle, some with rocks balanced on their heads as form of penance during a Good Friday ritual that is among the country’s largest annual pilgrimages, in Ganthier, Haiti, Friday, April 14, 2017. People appeal for blessings and pray for a peaceful country. Some raise their passports to heaven pleading for visas. Others pray for a loving relationship or cures for ailments. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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A woman stretches out her arms in prayer as balances a stone on her head as a form of penance during a Good Friday ritual, in Ganthier, Haiti, Friday, April 14, 2017. Thousands of Haitians flock to mount Calvaire Miracle with rocks balanced on their heads, to pray and seek renewal in one of the spiritually-steeped country’s biggest annual pilgrimages. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Thursday, March 30, 2017, photo, Keith Vallejo leaves the courtroom, in Provo, Utah. A Utah judge sentencing the former Mormon bishop said the convicted rapist was an "extraordinary, good man" who did something wrong. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Judge Thomas Low appeared to become emotional on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, when he sentenced Vallejo to up to life in prison for 10 counts of forcible sexual abuse and one count of object rape. (Dominic Valente/Daily Herald via AP, Pool)
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3. Angela Merkel, 63, Chancellor of Germany. She is also the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Merkel has been described at various times as the de facto leader of the European Union, the most powerful woman in the world. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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5. Pope Francis, 80, is the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and sovereign of Vatican City. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first Pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century. Pope Francis is the spiritual leader to nearly one-sixth of the world's population, 1.3 billion people. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Police are looking for the individual responsible for putting Korans in toilets at the University of Texas at Dallas. (NBC-5 Dallas Forth Worth screenshot)
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FiLE - This undated file photo provided Wake County Sheriff's Office shows Basit Sheikh. A federal judge is checking Thursday, April 13, 2017, whether Sheikh, a mentally ill North Carolina man accused of trying to join al-Qaida-linked fighters in Syria, has improved after nearly a year of forced medication. (Wake County Sheriff's Office/The News & Observer via AP, File)
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Abdullah Rashid, 22, a Georgia native who moved to Cedar-Riverside last year, says his group, General Presidency of the Religious Affairs and Welfare of the Ummah, is trying to enforce what he calls 'the civil part of the sharia law' in the area. Muslim leaders in Minneapolis are wary of Rashid, who has been patrolling a predominantly Somali neighborhood to enforce the Islamic civil code. (Faiza Mahamud/Star Tribune via AP)
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Abdullah Rashid, 22, a Georgia native who moved to Cedar-Riverside last year, says his group, General Presidency of the Religious Affairs and Welfare of the Ummah, is trying to enforce what he calls 'the civil part of the sharia law' in the area. Muslim leaders in Minneapolis are wary of Rashid, who has been patrolling a predominantly Somali neighborhood to enforce the Islamic civil code. (Faiza Mahamud/Star Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014 file photo, Marseille's Giannelli Imbula, center, challenges for the ball with Saint-Etienne's Renaud Cohade, right, and Allan Saint-Maximin, during their League One soccer match, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France. Forget “Le Classique” and stay tuned for the biggest grudge match in French soccer. The real French derby pits Marseille and Saint-Etienne, the country’s two most decorated clubs, who meet Sunday, April 16 at the Stade Velodrome.(AP Photo/Claude Paris, file)
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Christian Bale arrives at the U.S. premiere of "The Promise" at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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Bishop Eugene Wellington of Slidell, Louisiana. Images courtesy of Mr. Wellington.
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FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2016 file photo, Rana Singh Sodhi, 49, holds a photograph in Gilbert, Ariz. of his murdered brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, who was murdered in the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by a man who said he wanted to kill Muslims. The Sikh religion was founded in India to promote religious freedom, gender equality and opportunity for all. Yet their beards and turbans make American Sikhs easy targets for the angry and uninformed who believe they are Muslims. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2016 file photo, Rana Singh Sodhi, 49, kneels near his service station in Mesa, Ariz., next to a memorial for his brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, who was murdered in the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by a man who said he wanted to kill Muslims. The Sikh religion was founded in India to promote religious freedom, gender equality and opportunity for all. Yet their beards and turbans make American Sikhs easy targets for the angry and uninformed who believe they are Muslims. Frightened and frustrated by hate-fueled violence, America's Sikh community is launching a million-dollar nationwide public awareness campaign to help prevent future attacks against its people. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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In this April 9, 2017 photo, men and women prepare roti flat bread for a Sikh community meal served free to anyone regardless of faith, religion or background, at the Guru Nanak Darbar house of worship in Hicksville, N.Y. The Long Island Sikh community has escaped much of the violence that has plagued Sikhs elsewhere, but America's Sikh community is launching a million-dollar nationwide public awareness campaign to help prevent hate attacks against its people. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In this April 9, 2017 photo, Sikh congregants and visitors share in a Sikh community meal served free to anyone regardless of faith, religion or background, at the Guru Nanak Darbar house of worship in Hicksville, N.Y. The Long Island Sikh community has escaped much of the violence that has plagued Sikhs elsewhere, but America's Sikh community is launching a million-dollar nationwide public awareness campaign to help prevent hate attacks against its people. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In this April 9, 2017 photo, Yasheep Kaur, 6, talks with her mother, Sandeep Kaur, as she prepares roti flat bread for a Sikh community meal served free to anyone regardless of faith, religion or background, at the Guru Nanak Darbar house of worship in Hicksville, N.Y. The Long Island Sikh community has escaped much of the violence that has plagued Sikhs elsewhere, but America's Sikh community is launching a million-dollar nationwide public awareness campaign to help prevent hate attacks against its people. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In this April 9, 2017 photo, Paramjit Singh Bedi, center, of the Guru Nanak Darbar Sikh house of worship, visits the kitchen at the temple during the preparation of food for a community meal served free to anyone regardless of faith, religion or background. America's Sikh community is launching a million-dollar nationwide public awareness campaign to help prevent hate attacks against its people. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In this April 9, 2017 photo, a Sikh man bows as Satinder Kaur leads a prayer recital at the Guru Nanak Darbar house of worship, in Hicksville, N.Y. Women and men share equal roles in the temple where Sikhs come together for worship and to serve community meals free for anyone regardless of faith, religion or background. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
