Religion_Belief

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A herd of buffaloes stand before they are slaughtered during a mass sacrifice ceremony at Gadhimai temple in the jungles of Bara district, about 160 miles (100 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. A festival believed to be the largest animal sacrifice ritual in the world began Friday in southern Nepal, where devotees believe the sacrifices bring good luck and a Hindu goddess will grant their wishes. Organizers and the authorities defend the festival held every five years as a generations-old tradition, though animal rights activists decry it as barbaric. During the 2009 festival, an estimated 200,000 animals and birds were sacrificed. (AP Photo/Sunil Sharma)

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Cora Masters-Barry at Union Temple Baptist Church for her late husband's annual turkey giveaway. Former Mayor Marion Barry died early Sunday at 78 (Andrea Noble/The Washington Times)

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People gather to photograph Oliver Johnson's painting of Marion Barry and musician Chuck Brown as people wait in line for Marion Barry's annual turkey giveaway held at Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Barry, the former 4-term Mayor of D.C. and former Councilmember, died Sunday morning at age 78. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Oliver Johnson holds his painting of Marion Barry and musician Chuck Brown as people wait in line for Marion Barry's annual turkey giveaway held at Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Barry, the former 4-term Mayor of D.C. and former Councilmember, died Sunday morning at age 78. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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People leave with their frozen turkeys at Marion Barry's annual turkey giveaway held at Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Barry, the former 4-term Mayor of D.C. and former Councilmember, died Sunday morning at age 78. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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People arrive to pick out their frozen turkeys that sit piled high on the ground at Marion Barry's annual turkey giveaway held at Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Barry, the former 4-term Mayor of D.C. and former Councilmember, died Sunday morning at age 78. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran has been fired for authoring a Christian book in 2013 that described homosexuality as a "sexual perversion." (atlantaga.gov)

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People arrive to pick out their frozen turkeys that sit piled high on the ground at Marion Barry's annual turkey giveaway held at Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Barry, the former 4-term Mayor of D.C. and former Councilmember, died Sunday morning at age 78. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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People gather to photograph Oliver Johnson's painting of Marion Barry and musician Chuck Brown as people wait in line for Marion Barry's annual turkey giveaway held at Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Barry, the former 4-term Mayor of D.C. and former Councilmember, died Sunday morning at age 78. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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People leave with their frozen turkeys at Marion Barry's annual turkey giveaway held at Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Barry, the former 4-term Mayor of D.C. and former Councilmember, died Sunday morning at age 78. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Oliver Johnson holds his painting of Marion Barry and musician Chuck Brown as people wait in line for Marion Barry's annual turkey giveaway held at Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Barry, the former 4-term Mayor of D.C. and former Councilmember, died Sunday morning at age 78. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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The Colorado Supreme Court tossed out a suit from the Freedom From Religion challenging Colorado's honorary Day of Prayer. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) ** FILE **

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D.C. officials and students from Academia de la Recta Porta International Christian Day School attended a 2009 rally in support of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. (The Washington Times/File)

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Mike Rowe, the former host of Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs," took some time out of his flight to publicly ridicule a liberal commenter who apparently hijacked his Facebook page last week to hawk his book and make provocative claims, like "it's impossible to be a Christian and vote Republican." (Facebook/Mike Rowe) ** FILE **

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D.C. Mayor Marion Barry listened to the music during a gathering at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto outside Johannesburg on July 21, 1997. Mr. Barry was one of over 1,000 delegates for the fourth African African-American Summit to visit South Africa before attending the summit in Harare, Zimbabwe. (Associated Press/Lori Waselchuk)

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Former Mayor Marion Barry and his new wife Cora Masters Barry after their wedding at the Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast on Jan. 8, 1994. (Bert V. Goulait/The Washington Times)

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The Women of Fairmont Presbyterian Church in Lexington, North Carolina, made fleece prayer blankets for residents of Carolina House of Lexington. (Associated Press/File)

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Visitors walk behind an ancient marble head of ancient Greek warrior-king Alexander the Great, displayed at the Acropolis museum in Athens, Oct. 12, 2014. Alexander the Great was one of the world's most successful military commanders, who enlarged his father's kingdom to include an empire stretching from modern Greece to India. During his youth, Alexander was tutored by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle until the age of 16. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Sheikh Samir Assi, the imam of the Al-Jazaar mosque in the northern Israeli city of Acre, addresses Christian, Muslim and Jewish clerics outside the synagogue, where on Tuesday two Palestinians killed five Israelis, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. The clergy met to plead for tolerance amid spiking regional tensions. (AP Photo/Olivier Fitoussi) ** ISRAEL OUT **