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Egyptian journalists hold a protest for Christians who were killed in Libya, at the journalists syndicate in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. An Islamic State video released on 15 February claimed to show the extremist group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians abducted in Libya more than a month ago. Arabic on the banners read, "a protest to morn the victims of terrorism in Libya," top, " we are not afraid from ISIS terrorism," center. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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An Indian Catholic priest marks cross symbol on the forehead of devotees during an Ash Wednesday service at the St. Joseph Cathedral in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. Christians make up about 2.3 percent of India's population of 1.26 billion. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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Gerardo Pollicita has charged Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez with "aggravated concealment" and a number of lesser infractions in connection with covering up a deal with Iran after the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. (Associated Press Photographs)
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Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing a Jewish community center, was found shot dead at his apartment Jan. 19, 2014.
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A nun kisses the ecclesiastical ring of newly appointed Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, at St. Paul’s Missionary school in the suburbs of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. Church colleagues on Monday proudly welcomed home Archbishop Charles Maung Bo, a day after his appointment by Pope Francis as Myanmar's first Roman Catholic cardinal. Bo’s appointment comes as Myanmar grapples with major problems of religious intolerance, particularly by members of the Buddhist majority toward Muslims of the Rohingya ethnic minority. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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A man is comforted by others as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/File)
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Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said Monday that the Islamic State group represents Islam about as much as the Ku Klu Klan represents Christianity, arguing that the mission of both groups is not about religion but "a play for money and power." (MSNBC via Breitbart)
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Indian devotees travel on a ferry to Umananda, left, a river island in the Brahmaputra that houses a Shiva temple, during Shivratri festival in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Shivratri, or the night of Shiva, is dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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Avenger: Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Libya in swift retribution for the extremists' beheading of a group of Egyptian Christian hostages. (Associated Press)
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Mourners sought solace Monday outside the Virgin Mary Church in a village near Minya after militants affiliated with the Islamic State released an Internet video of the grisly killings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya. (Associated Press)
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Following the call of the youth section of the Federation of Jewish Religious Communities of Hungary (Mazsihisz), people light candles in front of the Danish Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, as they pay tribute to victims of the two terrorist attacks committed in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/MTI, Bea Kallos)
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Philadelphia firefighters work the scene of an overnight blaze in west Philadelphia on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, where ice has formed from the water used to fight the fire. Bone-chilling, single-digit temperatures have gripped the region, prompting the closure of all parish and regional Catholic elementary schools in the city of Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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In this file image made from a video released Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group purportedly shows Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach, each accompanied by a masked militant. The mass beheadings of Egyptian Christians by militants in Libya linked to the Islamic State group have thrown a spotlight on the threat the extremists pose beyond their heartland in Syria and Iraq, where they have established a self-declared proto-state. (AP Photo, File)
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Men mourn over the Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, at the Virgin Mary church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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People place flower tributes at the synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt says she is mourning the two people killed and is vowing to protect freedom of speech along with Denmark's Jewish community. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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Egyptian Coptic men mourn for 21 Coptic Egyptian men seized by Islamic State militants in the central city of Sirte, Libya, more than a month ago, at the Virgin Mary Church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday in swift retribution for the extremists' beheading of a group of Egyptian Christian hostages on a beach, shown in a grisly online video released hours earlier. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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FBI agents remove evidence from the Brooklyn residence of Rabbi Mendel Epstein during an investigation, in New York, in this Oct. 10, 2013, file photo. Several defendants, including Epstein and another rabbi, are accused by the FBI of plotting to kidnap and beat a man to force him to grant a religious divorce. Epstein's trial starts Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in federal court in New Jersey. Several co-defendants have pleaded guilty and others will join him in court this week. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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Humanist chaplain Bart Campolo, a former Evangelical Christian youth minister, walks past the United University Church at the University of Southern California, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)