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A sign posted earlier this month in front of the Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle Church in Tennessee has angered many in the church's community. (Courtesy of WATE-TV)
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People stand amid bodies covered with blankets in a mosque after a suicide attack during the noon prayer in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Gloria Villatoro joins her children and community members in prayer at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Des Moines, Iowa. Max Villatoro was arrested by immigration officials and faces deportation under new administration rules. (Associated Press)
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Seth Jeffs, brother of imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, exits the Tom Green County courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, on May 20, 2008. Mr. Jeffs has told the state of South Dakota that members of the FLDS need more water for gardens, orchards and animal herds at the group’s ranch in the Black Hills near Pringle, S.D., prompting concern by neighbors and law enforcement about a possible influx of members who are being displaced from a compound on the Utah- Arizona border. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
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Three men were sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for violating Myanmar's religion act after they posted a promotional image online showing Buddha wearing headphones. (NBC News)
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Courage: Logo of Courage, an international Roman Catholic apostolate that serves people with homosexual inclinations. It was founded in 1980. (Source: Courage)
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It is not known exactly where bamboo tattoos originated – possibly Cambodia, but it is believed to have begun in the Buddhist temples in Thailand where religious texts would be tattooed onto monks for protection of the scripts. (Photo courtesy/Lea Hutchins)
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It is not known exactly where bamboo tattoos originated – possibly Cambodia, but it is believed to have begun in the Buddhist temples in Thailand where religious texts would be tattooed onto monks for protection of the scripts. (Photo courtesy/Lea Hutchins)
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FILE - In this June 19, 2014, file photo, Gary Lyon, left, of Leechburg, Pa., and Bill Samford, of Hawley, Pa., celebrate after a vote allowing Presbyterian pastors discretion in marrying same-sex couples at the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Cobo Hall, in Detroit. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approved redefining marriage in the church constitution Tuesday, March 17, 2015, to include a "commitment between two people," becoming the largest Protestant group to formally recognize gay marriage as Christian and allow same-sex weddings in every congregation. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Guralnick, File)
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FILE - In this June 19, 2014, file photo, Gary Lyon, left, of Leechburg, Pa., and Bill Samford, of Hawley, Pa., celebrate after a vote allowing Presbyterian pastors discretion in marrying same-sex couples at the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Cobo Hall, in Detroit. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approved redefining marriage in the church constitution Tuesday, March 17, 2015, to include a "commitment between two people," becoming the largest Protestant group to formally recognize gay marriage as Christian and allow same-sex weddings in every congregation. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Guralnick, File)
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Author and conservative activist David Horowitz says there is a "disgusting" epidemic of anti-Semitism on campuses and that administrators are tolerating it. (Associated Press)
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The Grand Marshall of the St. Patrick's Day Parade, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, walks past protesters during the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. A group of people along the parade route were protesting the exclusion of LGBT groups from the parade. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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An Orthodox church is silhouetted during sunset in the village of Mozoli, 30 miles northwest of the capital, Minsk, Belarus, Monday, March 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Jewish children wear skull caps, or kippah, in their pre-kindergarten class at the Al & Sonny Gindi Barkai Yeshivah in Brooklyn, New York, on March 11, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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University of Oklahoma students march in protest to the University of Oklahoma's now-closed Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Members of SAE were caught on video chanting a racial slur. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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In this Feb. 27, 2015 photo, Jamaican Jewish community leader Ainsley Henriques poses for a photo on the sand covered floor of Sha’are Shalom, Jamaica's last synagogue, in Kingston. The dwindling congregation of the historic Kingston temple is trying to preserve their history and attract tourists who can appreciate it. In Jamaica in the 1800s, there were as many as eight synagogues and roughly 2,500 Jews, including quite a few who had a notable influence on civic life. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
