Religion_Belief

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The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivers a sermon at a mosque in Iraq on July 5, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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With potential candidates including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and former Sen. Rick Santorum, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, said there's no clear front-runner yet for the conservative Christian vote. (Associated Press Photographs)

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Illustration on societal vulgarity and the use of the N-word by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Tasha Burns holds her daughter, Heaven, 13 months, as her son, Brian, 4 months, sleeps at rear in a Salvation Army homeless shelter in Oklahoma City on April 3, 2007. The Burns family has been homeless since Hurricane Katrina hit Florida in August of 2005. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Bruce Fein: "Who in Congress will stand up with the courage of Hans Christian Andersen's little child and shout that the Emperor has no clothes?" (AP Photo/FILE)

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An image from a video posted online by the Youth Association of Turkey, a man reported to be a U.S. servicemember, at right, is roughed up by protesters in Istanbul. Image via Youtube

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An image from a video posted online by the Youth Association of Turkey, a man reported to be a U.S. servicemember, at right, is roughed up by protesters in Istanbul. Image via Youtube

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Jeremy Tedesco of the Alliance Defending Freedom said that a Colorado school "implemented an ill-conceived ban that singles out religious speech for censorship during free time." (Alliance Defending Freedom)

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Bishop William F. Murphy acknowledges the need for the Catholic Church to find common ground with modern health care in the name of providing care. (Associated Press)

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"Protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love," urged Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Montgomery bus boycott memoir "Stride Toward Freedom." Above: A dedicated copy of the book. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, ribbed the media on its coverage of the synod on family members last month at the Vatican, during Monday's Catholic bishops conference. (Associated Press)

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Left to right, Archbishop Daniel N. DiNardo vice president, of Galveston-Houston, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president, of Louisville, and the Rev. Ronny Jenkins, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, lead a general meeting of the conference during its annual fall meeting in Baltimore Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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From left, Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, address reporters at a news conference during the conference's annual fall meeting in Baltimore Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark) ** FILE **

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Vice President Joe Biden is introduced by Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin as he arrives to address the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly at the Gaylord National Harbor Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Md., Monday, Nov. 10, 2104. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Bishop Michael J. Sis, left, of San Angelo, Texas and Bishop Peter J. Jugis, right, of Charlotte, N.C., pray at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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"It's going to be the most ambitious and far-reaching voter mobilization effort in the history of the conservative faith community, and it's going to be roughly three times the level of what we did in 2016," said Ralph Reed, founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Workers load a cargo jet with tons of Ebola relief supplies at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C., on Nov. 5, 2014. The International Christian charity Samaritaan's Purse is shipping the supplies to Liberia. (Associated Press/The Charlotte Observer, Todd Sumlin) **FILE**