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In this Oct. 5, 2014 file photo, a library official shows a Jewish manuscript smuggled into Israel from Damascus in a Mossad spy operation in the early 1990s, in Jerusalem. The manuscript is one of the earliest existing complete manuscripts of the Hebrew bible. Two decades after Israeli spies helped whisk eight ancient Hebrew bibles from Damascus to Jerusalem, Israel's national library asked an Israeli court Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 to grant it official custodianship over the manuscripts, a move that is liable to spark a bitter ownership battle over the some of the Syrian Jewish community's most important treasures. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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The Quran (right) is the Muslim holy book. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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A study involving the Los Angeles LGBT Center finds that gay canvassers could influence some conservative voters to support gay marriage.
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Faith and Action hosts a nativity scene including actors in period costume portraying Mary, Joseph, the Baby Jesus, live camels and a donkey, Washington, D.C., Thursday, December 11, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Faith and Action hosts a nativity scene including actors in period costume portraying Mary, Joseph, the Baby Jesus, live camels and a donkey, Washington, D.C., Thursday, December 11, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Faith and Action hosts a nativity scene including actors in period costume portraying Mary, Joseph, the Baby Jesus, live camels and a donkey, Washington, D.C., Thursday, December 11, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Regardless of religious beliefs, there are many things we can all learn from Moses and this incredible story.
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Kansas lawmakers are holding hearings on divorce reform. (AP Photo/The Salvation Army, Salvation Army Lt. Michael Harper)
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In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop addresses a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Iraq at the United Nations headquarters. Australia will continue to directly pay for climate change adaptation in vulnerable South Pacific island nations through its aid budget rather than donate to a U.N. Green Climate Fund designed for the same purpose, Bishop said Friday, Dec. 5, ahead of climate talks in Peru. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)-FILE
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A group of anti-Muslim protesters carrying signs that read "Ban Islam" and "Islam Wants No Peace!" gathered outside of Kennesaw City Hall as the council voted 4-1 against a Muslim group's request to rent a retail space in the city to be used as a mosque. (11 Alive News)
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Protesters chanted "no justice, no peace" with fists raised on Monday, interrupting a speech in Atlanta by Attorney General Eric Holder who was announcing his plan "to help end racial profiling, once and for all." (CNN)
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Many churches and charitable foundations are jumping on board the internet platform. (GivingTuesday.org)
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While not specifically political, Tim Tebow's eyeblack in this November 2009 powerfully conveyed his Christian beliefs while he was a quarterback for the Florida Gators. The NCAA in 2010 would pass what became known as the "Tebow rule" prohibiting players from wearing messages on their eyeblack — although officials denied it was specifically aimed at the quarterback.
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Ferguson protesters tie up morning rush hour on the roadways in and around Washington. (Twitter photo by @NikkiBurdine)
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In this Feb. 23, 2007 file photo, Girl Scouts from the Texas Council sell cookies in Dallas. On May 1, 2017, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas announced that parishes in his jurisdiction shall sever their ties with the Girl Scouts and may pursue the Christian alternative American Heritage Girls instead. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) **FILE**
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Protesters hang a rainbow banner from the foot bridge near the U.S. Embassy to demand justice for the Oct. 11, 2014 killing of Filipino transgender Jennifer Laude at the former U.S. naval base of Subic northwest of Manila, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. U.S. marine PFC Joseph Scott Pemberton was tagged as the suspect in the killing which the protesters termed as a "hate crime" against LGBT (Lesbians Gays Bisexual and Transgender) Filipinos. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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The all-female punk rock band Pussy Riot showed their support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong in the form of a photographic tributes. The umbrella symbolizes the two-month long protests that have swept Hong Kong as citizens call for free leadership elections in 2017. (Facebook/Stand By You 2.0)
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Denise Armstrong, helping son Joseph with schoolwork in this 2005 photo, opted to homeschool her children, feeling she could do better than the public schools at instilling her values in them. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)