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Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich speaks at a gala celebration marking the opening of an American Jewish Committee office for Central Europe in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 27, 2017. The AJC, a 111-year-old global organization based in New York, has a long history of engagement in the region. It was the first Jewish organization to call for recognizing German unification after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it supported Central and Eastern European nations as they worked to become democracies and join the European Union and NATO. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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In a Friday, March 24, 2017 photo, windows in a building are marked for demolition at the Lied Renaissance Center building, in Omaha, Neb. Demolition of the Lied Renaissance Center, formerly Methodist Midtown Hospital, began in mid-March and is expected to be completed by late June. By summertime, the new Salvation Army building at 36th and Cuming Streets will no longer be in the shadow of its 110-year-old predecessor. (Matt Miller/The World-Herald via AP)/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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In a Friday, March 24, 2017 photo, the old entrance to the Lied Renaissance Center building is framed between dismantled light posts in Omaha, Neb. Demolition of the Lied Renaissance Center, formerly Methodist Midtown Hospital, began in mid-March and is expected to be completed by late June. By summertime, the new Salvation Army building at 36th and Cuming Streets will no longer be in the shadow of its 110-year-old predecessor. (Matt Miller/The World-Herald via AP)
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FILE - In this March 21, 2013 file photo, Montana state Rep. Keith Regier, R-Kalispell speaks on the house floor in Helena, Montana. Regier, now a state senator, has proposed a bill poised to clear the state legislature in March 2017, which would forbid the use of religious and foreign laws in state courts that don't grant the same rights and privileges as the state or U.S. constitutions. While the legislation does not specifically mention Sharia law, both supporters and opponents refer to them as "Sharia law bills." Sharia law is what governs Islamic societies. (Eliza Wiley/The Independent Record via AP)
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In this March 19, 2017 photo, people attend Sunday worship at the William Carey Baptist Church in Havana, Cuba. Churches are working on projects that once would have been forbidden to them, including efforts on HIV-AIDS prevention, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, medicine distribution, training of farm workers and disaster relief.(AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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In this March 19, 2017 photo, Esther Zulueta, left, doctor and member of the William Carey Baptist Church, attends Sunday worship in Havana, Cuba. The church council estimates that there are about 25,000 evangelical and other Protestant houses of worship across the country. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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In this March 8, 2017 photo, Reverend Joel Ortega Dopica, President of the Council of Churches of Cuba, speaks during an interview in Havana, Cuba. "There is religious freedom in Cuba" Ortega Dopica says. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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In this March 16, 2017 photo, patients with special needs attend therapy sessions in the William Carey Baptist Church in Havana, Cuba. Like the Roman Catholic church, the island's dominant denomination, evangelical churches have begun providing social services once monopolized by the Communist government. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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In this March 19, 2017 photo, people greet each other and sing as they attend Sunday worship at the William Carey Baptist Church in Havana, Cuba. Pastors and worshippers say Cuba is in the middle of an unprecedented boom in evangelical worship, with tens of thousands of Cubans worshipping unmolested across the island each week. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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In this March 19, 2017 photo, people leave the Fuente De Vida Church after Sunday worship in Havana, Cuba. While the government now recognizes freedom of religion, it doesn't grant the right to build churches or other new religious structures. It has demolished a handful of churches in recent years, but allowed their members to continue meeting in makeshift home sanctuaries. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan) **FILE**
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In this March 19, 2017 photo, people sing as they attend Sunday worship at the William Carey Baptist Church in Havana, Cuba. Like the Roman Catholic church, the island's dominant denomination, evangelical churches have begun providing social services once monopolized by the Communist government. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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Kansas City Royals' Christian Colon, right, dives safe back to first before the tag of Los Angeles Angels' Jefry Marte during the third inning of a spring training baseball game Sunday, March 26, 2017, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Protesters gather at Marsivo Field in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, March 26, 2017, file photo. Thousands of people crowded in St. Petersburg on Sunday for an unsanctioned protest against the Russian government, the biggest gathering in a wave of nationwide protests that were the most extensive show of defiance in years. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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Denmark's Christian Eriksen, center, challenges Romania's Razvan Marin,left, during their World Cup Group E qualifying soccer match at the Cluj Arena stadium in Cluj, Romania, Sunday, March 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
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Protesters hold a cardboard cutout poster depicting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at Marsivo Field in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, March 26, 2017. Thousands of people crowded in St.Petersburg on Sunday for an unsanctioned protest against the Russian government, the biggest gathering in a wave of nationwide protests that were the most extensive show of defiance in years. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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This March 22, 2017 photo shows the hallway on the second floor inside the former 21,500-square-foot Transfiguration School Building in which the City of Detroit in partnership with the Archdiocese of Detroit is looking to redevelop. The former Catholic school building at 13300 Syracuse St. in Detroit near the border of Hamtramck has been vacant since 2005. The project is expected to cost between $4-5 million with hopes of turning it into a mixed-income apartment building with 15-25 residential units, 20 percent of which will be considered affordable. (Tanya Moutzalias/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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This March 22, 2017 photo shows the former Transfiguration School Building at 13300 Syracuse St. in Detroit near the border of Hamtramck. the City of Detroit in partnership with the Archdiocese of Detroit is looking to redevelop the property. The former Catholic school building has been vacant since 2005. The project is expected to cost between $4-5 million with hopes of turning the 21,500-square-foot space into a mixed-income apartment building with 15-25 residential units, 20 percent of which will be considered affordable. (Tanya Moutzalias/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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This March 22, 2017 photo shows one of the classrooms inside the former 21,500-square-foot Transfiguration School Building in which the City of Detroit in partnership with the Archdiocese of Detroit is looking to redevelop. The former Catholic school building at 13300 Syracuse St. in Detroit near the border of Hamtramck has been vacant since 2005. The project is expected to cost between $4-5 million with hopes of turning the 21,500-square-foot space into a mixed-income apartment building with 15-25 residential units, 20 percent of which will be considered affordable. (Tanya Moutzalias/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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This March 22, 2017 photo shows a tin ceiling which needs repair inside the 1925-built Transfiguration School Building in which the City of Detroit in partnership with the Archdiocese of Detroit is looking to redevelop. The former Catholic school building at 13300 Syracuse St. in Detroit near the border of Hamtramck has been vacant since 2005. The project is expected to cost between $4-5 million with hopes of turning the 21,500-square-foot space into a mixed-income apartment building with 15-25 residential units, 20 percent of which will be considered affordable. (Tanya Moutzalias/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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This March 22, 2017 photo, shows the former 21,500-square-foot Transfiguration School Building which the city of Detroit in partnership with the Archdiocese of Detroit is looking to redevelop near the border of Hamtramck, Mich. The former Catholic school building has been vacant since 2005. The project is expected to cost between $4-5 million with hopes of turning it into a mixed-income apartment building with 15-25 residential units, 20 percent of which will be considered affordable. (Tanya Moutzalias /The Ann Arbor News via AP)
