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In this Friday, April 14, 2006 file photo, Egyptian Copts cross their wrists in defiance outside the Saints Church in the Sidi Bishr district of Alexandria in Egypt. Egypt’s Coptic Christians have become the preferred target of Islamic State radicals operating in the Arab world’s most populous nation, seeking to sow discord, undermine President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, and split the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Brian Rohan, Associated Press
Egypt's Coptic Christians have become the preferred target of the Islamic State group, an apocalyptic cult seeking religious war.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington is seen on Jan. 31. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
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Sam Hananel - Associated Press
Justices considered the cases of three church-affiliated nonprofit hospital systems being sued for underfunding pension plans.
A Muslim woman adorned in an American flag listens as President Donald Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28 in Washington. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)
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Philip Marcelo - Associated Press
Supporters of state proposals to prevent Islamic code from being used in American courts argue they aren't overtly anti-Muslim and are needed to safeguard constitutional rights for average Americans.
In this March 19, 2017 photo, people greet each other and sing as they attend Sunday worship at the William Carey Baptist Church in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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Andrea Rodriguez - Associated Press
Pastors and worshippers say Cuba is in the middle of a boom in evangelical worship, with tens of thousands of Cubans worshipping unmolested across the island each week.
Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for the French 2017 presidential elections, meets with Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai in Bkerke, north of Beirut, Lebanon, on Feb. 21, 2017. Photo courtesy of Reuters/Mohamed Azakir
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Tom Heneghan - Religion News Service
Playing the religion card so openly is unusual in France, where the official separation of church and state is normally taken so seriously that politicians rarely if ever mention in public whether they have a faith or not.
Middlebury College students turn their backs to author Charles Murray during his lecture in Middlebury, Vt. The college says it has initiated an independent investigation into the protest in which the author of a book discussing racial differences in intelligence was shouted down during the guest lecture and a professor was injured. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke, File)
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The Editors
What is needed is a case for civility and engagement across the lines of ideology, race and class—grounded not just in freedom or tolerance but charity.