Religion_Belief

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Hooded penitents flagellate themselves in a ritual to atone for their sins in observance of Holy Week Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at Pili township, Camarines Sur province, south of Manila, Philippines. The all-male practice is being discouraged by the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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President Obama bows his head during the prayer during the Easter Prayer Breakfast on Monday. The president's faith may run deep, but his attendance at church services during his time in Washington has been infrequent. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2012, file photo, Ismael el-Shikh stands in a prayer room at the Islamic Culture Center in Newark, N.J. Americans in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The special unit that conducted the program has been disbanded, the NYPD confirmed on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. The surveillance program by the NYPD Intelligence Division had come under fire by community activists who accused the department of abusing civil rights. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2012, file photo, a large crowd leaves the Masjid Omar mosque following afternoon prayers in Paterson, N.J. The Masjid Omar mosque was identified as a target for surveillance in a 2006 New York Police Department report uncovered by The Associated Press. The NYPD announced on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, that it has disbanded the special unit responsible for the surveillance program. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2013, file photo, visitors socialize after a Jumu'ah prayer service outside the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge and mosque in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The New York Police Department targeted the mosque as a part of a terrorism enterprise investigation beginning in 2003, spying on it for years. On Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the NYPD confirmed that it has disbanded the special unit that operated that surveillance program. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)