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In this Feb. 1, 2015 photo, Holy Trinity church stands illuminated at Russia's Bellinghausen station on King George Island in Antarctica. Holy Trinity is the world's southernmost Eastern Orthodox Church. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites," currently running at the Kennedy Center, is set during the French Revolution, when Carmelite nuns were guillotined for refusing to renounce their faith. (Washington National Opera)
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Krista and Jami Contreras are upset after they say a Michigan doctor refused to treat their newborn because of her religious beliefs against homosexuality. (FOX 2 Detroit)
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Rabbi Barry Freundel leaves the D.C. Superior Court House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. Freundel accused of videotaping women at a Jewish ritual bath, was in court for a scheduled status hearing. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 photo, Egyptians wait to leave a detention center for illegal immigrants east of the city of Misrata, Libya during their deportation back to Egypt. The deportation follows the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians by militants after they were abducted from Sirt(...)
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A man receives ashes from Baltimore Archbishop William Lori during an Ash Wednesday Mass in Baltimore. Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lent, a season of prayer and fasting for Christians before Easter. (Associated Press)
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Felicia Arroyo receives ashes from Rev. Frank Espegren, the senior pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. In celebration of Ash Wednesday, the pastors at St. John's joined other churches in providing Ashes On The Go for those who want to participate in(...)
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Parishioner Carol Zeiner receives the ashes in the symbol of a cross on her forehead during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Chapel of St. Anthony in Miami Gardens, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lent, a season of prayer and fasting for Christians before Easter. (AP Photo.)
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A man receives ashes from Baltimore Archbishop William Lori during an Ash Wednesday Mass, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, in Baltimore. Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lent, a season of prayer and fasting for Christians before Easter. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias, hold a demonstration against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi. Libya, virtually a failed state the past years, has provided a perfect opportuni(...)
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This image from a video released Feb. 15, 2015 by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group shows Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits being marched along a beach to their executions by hooded militants.
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Pope Francis leads the Ash Wednesday mass at the Santa Sabina Basilica, in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. The Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a solemn period of 40 days of prayer and self-denial leading up to Easter. (AP Photo/Gabriel Bouys, pool)
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Pope Francis leads the Ash Wednesday mass at the Santa Sabina Basilica, in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. The Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a solemn period of 40 days of prayer and self-denial leading up to Easter. (AP Photo/Gabriel Bouys, pool)
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A small fire was set to the New Shiloh Christian Church in Melbourne, Florida, and the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar" was spray-painted on one of its walls early Monday morning in what church members are calling a possible hate crime. (WKMG Local 6)
