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Posted: 1/11/2013 4:33:30 AM EST
Jean Zossoujbo, a guide at the Temple of Pythons, shows a python to a visitor to the temple in Ouidah, Benin, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Ouidah, considered the major cultural city in the West African nation of Benin, is preparing for its annual Voodoo Festival on Thursday. Voodoo is an official religion in this nation of 9 million people and this year's festival will honor the slaves taken from surrounding countries and sent into America and the Caribbean, people who brought the religion with them. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Posted: 12/2/2012 11:17:34 PM EST
Mohamed al-Omda, a former member of parliament, waves to supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Maadi, south of Cairo December 2, 2012. Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court postponed its work indefinitely on Sunday after a protest by Islamists sympathetic to President Mohamed Mursi outside its headquarters. The sign reads: "Islam is a religion of mercy, justice and peace". REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Posted: 12/2/2012 11:17:34 PM EST
Mohamed al-Omda, a former member of parliament, waves to supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Maadi, south of Cairo December 2, 2012. Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court postponed its work indefinitely on Sunday after a protest by Islamists sympathetic to President Mohamed Mursi outside its headquarters. The sign reads: "Islam is a religion of mercy, justice and peace". REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Posted: 11/28/2012 4:28:30 PM EST
In this Nov. 19, 2012 photo, Rastafarian Priest Lloyd makes handmade brooms at the Bobo Ashanti commune in Bull Bay, Jamaica. More people are joining Jamaica's homegrown Rastafarian religion some 80 years after it was founded by the descendants of African slaves in response to black oppression on the Caribbean island. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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Posted: 11/28/2012 4:28:30 PM EST
In this Nov. 17, 2012 photo, young and old Rastafarian adherents play drums and chant in a square at the town of Papine, a bustling market community in the outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica. More people are joining Jamaica's homegrown Rastafarian religion some 80 years after it was founded by the descendants of African slaves in response to black oppression on the Caribbean island. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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Posted: 11/28/2012 4:28:30 PM EST
In this Nov. 19, 2012 photo, Rastafarian Priest Noah poses for a photo on the porch of a "holy palace" at the Bobo Ashanti commune in Bull Bay, Jamaica. More people are joining Jamaica's homegrown Rastafarian religion some 80 years after it was founded by the descendants of African slaves in response to black oppression on the Caribbean island. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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Posted: 11/28/2012 4:28:30 PM EST
In this Nov. 19, 2012 photo, Rastafarian priests, Xavier, left, Morant, center, and Forrester, examine documents in the office of the isolated hilltop Bobo Ashanti commune in Bull Bay, Jamaica. More people are joining Jamaica's homegrown Rastafarian religion some 80 years after it was founded by the descendants of African slaves in response to black oppression on the Caribbean island. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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Posted: 11/28/2012 4:28:30 PM EST
In this Nov. 19, 2012 photo, a group of robed Rastafarian priests chant prayers while facing the direction of the African nation of Ethiopia at the Bobo Ashanti commune in Bull Bay, Jamaica. More people are joining Jamaica's homegrown Rastafarian religion some 80 years after it was founded by the descendants of African slaves in response to black oppression on the Caribbean island. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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Posted: 11/28/2012 4:28:30 PM EST
In this Nov. 19, 2012 photo, white-robed Rastafarian Priest Forrester motions towards the ocean below where he believes that a big ships will someday arrive to carry the descendants of African slaves back to Africa, at the isolated hilltop Bobo Ashanti commune in Bull Bay, Jamaica. More people are joining Jamaica's homegrown Rastafarian religion some 80 years after it was founded by the descendants of African slaves in response to black oppression on the Caribbean island. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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Posted: 11/27/2012 4:01:55 PM EST
People offer prayers before a mass burial of the unidentified garment workers, who died in a devastating fire in a garment factory, in Dhaka November 27, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: RELIGION CIVIL UNREST DISASTER BUSINESS)
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Posted: 11/27/2012 11:51:43 AM EST
People offer prayers before a mass burial of the unidentified garment workers, who died in a devastating fire in a garment factory, in Dhaka November 27, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: RELIGION CIVIL UNREST DISASTER BUSINESS)
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Posted: 10/19/2012 7:45:05 PM EST
Riot policemen stand on a truck during as they patrol Zanzibar October 19, 2012. Muslim protesters clashed with police in the Tanzanian capital and the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar on Friday, raising religious tensions in the secular east African country. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (TANZANIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST RELIGION POLITICS)
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Posted: 10/17/2012 9:03:24 PM EST
FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2012 file photo, Kountze High School cheerleaders and other children work on a large sign in Kountze, Texas. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that he is intervening in a lawsuit that cheerleaders filed against the school district. The district told the cheerleaders to stop using Bible verses at football games after the Freedom From Religion Foundation complained. (AP Photo/The Beaumont Enterprise, Dave Ryan, File)
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Posted: 10/17/2012 1:13:26 PM EST
File - In this Sept. 19, 2012 file photo, Kountze High School cheerleaders and other children work on a large sign in Kountze, Texas. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that he is intervening in a lawsuit that cheerleaders filed against the school district. The district told the cheerleaders to stop using Bible verses at football games after the Freedom From Religion Foundation complained. (AP Photo/The Beaumont Enterprise, Dave Ryan, File)
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Posted: 10/10/2012 7:18:38 PM EST
In this Sept. 28, 2012 photo, Darlene Derosier, 43, a Muslim, sits on a prayer rug at the Al-Fattah Mosque in Gressier, Haiti. Islam has won a growing number of followers in this impoverished country, especially after the catastrophic earthquake in 2010 that killed hundreds of thousands and left millions more homeless. Derosier said what's helped pull her through all the grief has been her faith, but not of the Catholic, Protestant or even Voodoo that's dominated this island country. Instead, she's converted to a new religion here, Islam, and built a small neighborhood mosque out of cinderblocks and plywood, where some 60 Muslims pray daily. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Posted: 10/9/2012 2:08:28 PM EST
An Egyptian protester carries a placard that reads in Arabic, "the people wants to dissolve the constituent assembly," and sets fire to a picture of judge Hossam El Gheriany, chairman of the constituent assembly, during a protest in front of the State Council's headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. Human Rights Watch on Monday urged the panel writing Egypt's new constitution to amend articles in the draft that the New York-based group says repress the rights of women and children and limit freedom of religion and expression.(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Posted: 10/9/2012 2:08:28 PM EST
An Egyptian protester carries placards that read in Arabic "the 100 sleeping days plan" and, partially shown, "the people wants to dissolve the constituent assembly," and chants slogans against the constituent assembly, an Islamists dominated panel writing Egypt's new constitution, during a protest in front of the State Council's headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. Human Rights Watch on Monday urged the panel writing Egypt's new constitution to amend articles in the draft that the New York-based group says repress the rights of women and children and limit freedom of religion and expression. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Posted: 10/6/2012 12:51:34 PM EST
Serbian Orthodox priests hold a religious ceremony inside the St George's Church on Oplenac Hill during a funeral for Prince Pavle Karadjordjevic, Princess Olga and their son Nikola in Topola, some 71km (44 miles) south from capital Belgrade, October 6, 2012. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (SERBIA - Tags: ROYALS OBITUARY RELIGION ENTERTAINMENT)
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Posted: 10/6/2012 12:51:34 PM EST
People stand outside the St George's Church on Oplenac Hill during a funeral for Prince Pavle Karadjordjevic, Princess Olga and their son Nikola in Topola, some 71km (44 miles) south from capital Belgrade, October 6, 2012. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (SERBIA - Tags: ROYALS OBITUARY RELIGION ENTERTAINMENT)
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Posted: 10/6/2012 12:51:34 PM EST
Serbia's Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic (L) lays flowers inside the St George's Church on Oplenac Hill during a funeral for Prince Pavle Karadjordjevic, Princess Olga and their son Nikola in Topola, some 71km (44 miles) south from capital Belgrade, October 6, 2012. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (SERBIA - Tags: ROYALS OBITUARY RELIGION ENTERTAINMENT)
