Religion_Belief

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Pope Francis gives his speech in the Synod hall on the occasion of the closing ceremony of the IV Scholas Occurrentes World Educational Congress, at the Vatican, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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New MLB commissioner Rob Manfred wants to engage more inner-city youth in baseball. (Associated Press)

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Desmond Casey reads a Bible at Charity Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, S.C., on Jan. 25, 2015. Casey has become more active since being stabbed 17 times when he intervened in a domestic assault. (AP Photo/The Post and Courier, Leroy Burnell)

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Two Jordanian women light candles next to a picture of Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, who was being held by Islamic State group militants, following Sunday prayers in the Adir Roman Catholic Church, on the outskirts of Karak, Jordan, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Illustration on caveats connected with political candidates' professions of faith by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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A $5 million trademark infringement suit against Liberty University may hinge on whether the school can use a hologram of its late founder, the Rev. Jerry L. Falwell Sr., at a proposed center honoring the late televangelist. Jerry Falwell Jr., a trustee of the Falwell Family Trust, sued the nation’s largest Christian university late last month alleging the school is improperly using “intellectual property” and a trademark assigned to the trust when the elder Falwell died in 2007. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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The public has to take NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's word for the leap of faith that investigators for the Ray Rice investigation and Deflategate were not hired for their connections to the league. (Associated Ptress)

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"U.S. policymakers refuse to accurately name the movement as radical Islam. We further choose not to define it nor explain its ideology, and most critical, we have no comprehensive strategy to stop it or defeat it," said retired Army Gen. John Keane. (Associated Press)

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Women prepare for the Women's Mosque of America's first monthly Friday prayer, called jumma'a, at the Pico Union Project in downtown Los Angeles, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Katie Falkenberg)

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Shoes line up just inside the room at the Pico Union Project, as women arrive for the Women's Mosque of America's first monthly Friday prayer, called jumma'a, at the Pico Union Project in downtown Los Angeles, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Katie Falkenberg)

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Great Mosque of Paris Rector Dalil Boubakeur, left, bids farewell to French President Francois Hollande, right, after a meeting with religious leaders at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Jan. 7. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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Amina Hassan, left, 11, of Grand Prairie, and Ayefa Klair, 10 of Irving, are faced with anti-Muslim protesters at the Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. Hundreds of Muslims from around Texas gathered for the Council on American-Islamic Relations rally and to talk to their representatives about legislation that's important to them. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)

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Father Najeeb Michaeel is working to preserve Christian manuscripts through digitization, recording a memory of Iraq's Christian past. Pictured here is a Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, the earliest complete New Testament, from 4th century Egypt or Palestine. (AP Photo)

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A full moon rises behind a cross on top of Saint Nicholas Catholic Church in the Heights neighborhood of Jersey City, N.J. (Associated Press)

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National Edition News cover for January 28, 2015 - Nigerian elections could put Christians in danger: Pall bearers carry the coffins of those killed in a Christmas Day bombing at a Catholic church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Mourners wept as they carried out the mass burial Wednesday the church near Nigeria's capital where dozens died in a Christmas Day bombing by a radical Islamist sect. (AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze)

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The Salt Lake Temple. in Temple Square, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mormon church leaders announced their new leader on July 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)