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An Iraqi nun speaks with a Christian man who fled with his family from the Christian villages near Mosul at a school that was turned into a shelter for displaced Christian families, in Ainkawa, a suburb of Irbil, Iraq. The Islamic State group gave Mosul's Christians until midday Saturday to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Christian Noboa of the Russia side Rubin Kazan challenges Artem Milevskiy (right) of Ukraine's Dynamo Kiev during their Group F Champions League soccer match in Kiev on Sept. 16, 2009. (Associated Press)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's declaration that "The border is secure" signals congressional gridlock over tens of thousands of children and families who have surged across the border this year. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court on June 30, 2014, the day of the Hobby Lobby decision relieving businesses with religious objections of their obligation to pay for women's contraceptives. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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The word 'tolerance,' which means forbearance, has been conflated to mean 'equality' and a demand for acceptance. (Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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National Edition News cover for July 12, 2014 - Criminal confession a dilemma for clergy: A Louisiana Supreme Court's decision that a teenage girl's confession of abuse to a priest can be used as evidence threatens to upend the sacred penitent-confessor privilege, the Catholic Church said in response. (Associated Press)
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Responding to an invitation from Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera to seek reconciliation with Christ during the season of Advent, nearly 5,000 Catholics stood in line for hours to receive the Sacrament of Confession. (Associated Press)
