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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 01: Senior Counselor to the President Steve Bannon helps with last minute preparations before President Donald Trump announces his decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement at the White House June 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump pledged on the campaign trail to withdraw from the accord, which former President Barack Obama and the leaders of 194 other countries signed in 2015 to deal with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance so to limit global warming to a manageable level. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Catholic bishops strike back at Bannon

Analysis by Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor

There's a common saying in Catholic charity circles: We don't help people because they're Catholic, we help them because we are.

Bannon on Catholic Church's DACA support: 'They need illegal aliens to fill the churches'

Bannon: GOP 'trying to nullify' Trump's election

Publisher pulls book by Hillary Clinton's pastor, citing plagiarism

Clinton: I relied on prayer, yoga and 'my fair share of Chardonnay' after 'devastating' 2016 loss

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets devotees as he leaves after a religious talk at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. The four-day religious discourse by the Tibetan leader for Buddhist groups from Southeast Asian countries ended Friday. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Buddha would have helped persecuted Rohingya refugees, Dalai Lama says

MIAMI, FL - SEPTEMBER 10: Jonvi Delsol checks out what is happening on her street as high winds and rain from hurricane Irma arrive on September 10, 2017 in Miami, Florida. Florida will take a hit by the Hurricane which will come ashore at category 4. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

'I'm staying': These Floridians didn't evacuate

ROME, ROME - APRIL 25: The Colosseum is seen on April 25, 2010 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

23 ancient cities that have survived more than just time

A Rohingya ethnic minority from Myanmar carries an elderly woman as they alight from a local boat on which they crossed a river, after crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Dakhinpara area, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017. Tens of thousands more people have crossed by boat and on foot into Bangladesh in the last 24 hours as they flee violence in western Myanmar, the UNHCR said Saturday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Myanmar rejects Rohingya offer of temporary ceasefire

Pope Francis, showing a bruise around his left eye and eyebrow caused by an accidental hit against the popemobile's window glass while visiting the old sector of Cartagena,Colombia, is greeted by faithful on September 10, 2017.
Nearly 1.3 million worshippers flocked to a mass by Pope Francis on Saturday in Medellin, the Colombian city known as the stronghold of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar. / AFP PHOTO / Alberto PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)

Pope has bumpy day in Colombia

Pope ?Francis boards a plane headed for Villavicencio, Colombia, at the CATAM military airport in Bogota on September 8, 2017.
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Pope Francis visits Colombia

5 reasons why people share fake photos during disasters

In the digital age, is shopping America's new religion?

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25 top things to do and eat in Malaysia

Hurricane Irma forced Pope Francis' plane to change course

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Hospitals evacuate patients ahead of Irma

Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the Tashlich prayer while facing the Mediterranean Sea at sunset of the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, on September 20, 2009, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Tashlich, which means 'to cast away', is the practice by which Jews go to a flowing body of water and symbolically 'throw away' their sins during the days of repentance between Rosh Hashanah and the upcoming day of atonement, or Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

Rosh Hashanah Fast Facts

Warren Jeffs is shown in this December 2005 photo supplied by a member of his FLDS church Thursday, April 20, 2006, in Hildale, Utah. The 50-year-old polygamous sect leader is now on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives list. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Fast Facts

Viral gospel singers perform on 'Tonight Show'

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos delivers a speech during the official launching of Pope Francis' visit to the country, at the Narino presidential palace in Bogota on August 28, 2017.
Pope Francis will make a four-day visit to Colombia, from September 6-11, to add his weight to the process of reconciliation between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). / AFP PHOTO / John VizcainoJOHN VIZCAINO/AFP/Getty Images

Colombian President: Venezuela is a 'dictatorship,' but US military action is a bad idea

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Who are the Rohingya and why are they fleeing?

Pope Francis (R) receives the "Bun of the peace" from Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos (L) and his wife prior to a meeting, on January 16, 2016 at the Vatican. / AFP / POOL / VINCENZO PINTO (Photo credit should read VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images)

Pope to begin peace-building visit to Colombia

KOLKATA, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 4: Students of Film Studies, Jadavpur University enact a street play on genocide of Rohingya Muslim people of Myanmar during a protest rally in front of Myanmar Consulate office on September 4, 2017 in Kolkata, India. They also demanded the resignation of Noble Peace Laureate Myanmar's Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi and brunt her effigy. (Photo by Samir Jana/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Aung San Suu Kyi: The rise and fall of Asia's Mandela

Christianity Fast Facts

Merkel and Schulz spar over North Korea, refugees

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How prayer helped through tragedy

Trump on attacking North Korea: 'We'll see'

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Church group helps elderly flood survivor

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US assisting South Korea with missile defense

Muslims gather to perform the Eid Al Adha prayer at Es-Saraya Square in Gaza City, Gaza on September 1, 2017. Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid Al-Adha, to commemorate the holy Prophet Ibrahim's (Prophet Abraham) readiness to sacrifice his son as a sign of his obedience to God, during which they sacrifice permissible animals, generally goats, sheep, and cows. Eid-al Adha is the one of two most important holidays in the Islamic calendar, with prayers and the ritual sacrifice of animals.

Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha festival

A man raises Torah scrolls during the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall on April 17.

Judaism Fast Facts

Islam Fast Facts

After 60 years of helping Beaumont, Texas hospital needed help of its own

Indian Hindu devotees gather around a huge idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha during the procession for immersion into the Arabian Sea, on the streets of Mumbai on September 29, 2012. (Photo credit: PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images)

Hinduism Fast Facts

Villagers in Beraberi receive food and safe drinking water during a distribution by Bangladesh Red Crescent volunteers. The villagers of Beraberi have been rationing their food since devastating floods damaged their homes and crops and swept away livestock.

A third of Bangladesh under water as flood devastation widens

This photo taken on July 14, 2017 shows border police standing guard at Tinmay village, Buthidaung township in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state.
Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred corner of Rakhine State say fear is one of the few constants in their lives. / AFP PHOTO / HLA HLA HTAY / TO GO WITH Myanmar-Bangladesh-killings-unrest by HLA HLA HTAY (Photo credit should read HLA HLA HTAY/AFP/Getty Images)

Bodies of 20 Rohingya Muslims pulled from river on Bangladesh border

Salt Lake City was founded by Mormon pioneers in the mid-19th century.

Mormon Church Fast Facts

Houston mosques open doors to shelter Harvey evacuees

Gospel singers lift spirits at shelter for Harvey evacuees

Gospel singers lift spirits at storm shelter

Britain puts animal fat in its cash

Evangelical group condemns acceptance of 'transgenderism'

Father of 5 recounts harrowing flood escape

Pope Francis greets former White House press secretary Sean Spicer on the occasion of an annual meeting of the International Catholic Legislators Network, at the Vatican, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Spicer, who is Roman Catholic, had been left off a list of White House officials who had the chance to meet with Francis in May when Trump visited the Vatican. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

Sean Spicer meets Pope Francis at last

A Malaysian girl carries a national flag during an Independence Day parade rehearsals in Kuala Lumpur.

At 60, does Malaysia need to re-examine identity?

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Joel Osteen's Harvey excuses are bogus

SELMA, NC - NOVEMBER 03: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at The Farm on November 3, 2016 in Selma, North Carolina. With less than a week before Election Day in the United States, Trump and his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, are campaigning in key battleground states that each must win to take the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Exclusive: How a request about Russians made its way from West Virginia to Trump's team

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Living the high life: Europe's most beautiful hilltop towns

a antifa demonstrator is arrested after she tried to enter Alamo Square which police had blocked off

Bay Area counterprotests

A man gets sprayed with a chemical irritant as multiple fights break out between Trump supporters and anti-Trump protesters in Berkeley, California on April 15, 2017.

San Francisco 'Freedom Rally' replaced by news conference

Episcopal Church Fast Facts

A lecture room at Longquan monastery on the outskirts of Beijing.

Buddhism Fast Facts

A Lebanese couple enjoy themselves in the water at the beach of the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Is Tyre the Mediterranean's best-kept secret?

What we know about USS John S. McCain's sailors

Rabbis ditch Trump after Charlottesville

Fr. William Aitcheson, a Catholic priest, has voluntarily stepped down from public ministry after writing an op-ed about his life as a KKK member forty years ago.

Catholic priest admitted to KKK membership after reporter's questions

ISIS Fast Facts

Almost 350,000 have fled the city and surrounding areas -- many to stay with relatives and friends outside the city, but thousands of others to the IDP camps.

Bloodied and broken: Rising toll of Philippines' war with ISIS

White families, fleeing people of color, helped create suburban America. It's called White flight.

'White supremacists by default': How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif waves from a balcony of the Palais Coburg Hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held in Vienna, Austria on July 13, 2015.

Iran, Saudi Arabia to try diplomatic exchange in apparent thaw

Picture of Fr. William Aitcheson, a Catholic priest has voluntarily stepped down from public ministry after writing an op-ed about his life as a KKK member forty years ago.

Catholic priest takes a leave after admitting life in KKK 40 years ago

Indian Muslim women participate in a rally to oppose the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) that would outlaw the practice of "triple talaq" in Ahmedabad in 2016.

Triple talaq: India's top court bans Islamic practice of instant divorce

How to tour 'The Sound of Music,' 50 years later

Pope Francis waves to the faithful as he delivers his 'Urbi et Orbi' blessing message from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica at the end of the Easter Mass on April 5 in Vatican City, Vatican.

Pope Francis tour: Walk in his steps in Argentina

CLEVELAND, OH - AUGUST 21: A group of Cleveland Browns players kneel in a circle in protest during the national anthem prior to a preseason game against the New York Giants at FirstEnergy Stadium on August 21, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

Cleveland Browns players kneel, huddle during national anthem

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Ryan: Censure 'would be so counterproductive'

Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip pose for a picture near the Dome of the Rock mosque in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's old city on August 20, 2017 as they visit the city for the first time as part of an exchange program run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Ninety-one children between the ages of eight and 14 crossed from the blockaded Palestinian enclave into Israel before visiting Jerusalem, according to United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA. All but seven had never been out of the Gaza Strip.

Children from Gaza visit Jerusalem for first time

Trump nominee Sam Clovis: 'As far as we know' homosexuality's a choice, 'logical' LGBT protections could lead to legalization of pedophilia

Thousands gathered on Wednesday night for a vigil at the University of Virginia days after the violent clashes in Charlottesville.

What our faith tells us about healing America

Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, senior adviser to Trump arrive at Rome's Fiumicino Airport on May 23, 2017.

Jared and Ivanka are failing a basic moral test

Volunteers search for bodies from the scene of heavy flooding and mudslides in Regent, just outside of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.

Death toll mounts in Sierra Leone mudslides

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Pastor first to quit Trump advisory board

A Pakistani man carries a candle to place on a table in front of a picture of Ruth Pfau, a German nun known locally as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, at the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre in Karachi on August 10, 2017. Ruth Pfau, a German nun who devoted her life to combatting leprosy in Pakistan, has died at the age of 87. Pfau, who was known locally as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, came to the southern port city of Karachi in 1960 and spent half a century taking care of some of the country's sickest and poorest people. She was the founder of Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre in Karachi, where she was being cared for at the time of her death after falling ill two weeks ago.
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German nun called 'Pakistan's Mother Teresa' to receive state funeral

The Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups

A Swiss hotel asks Jewish guests to shower before entering the pool

GOLDEN, CO - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in the Rodeo Arena at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds October 29, 2016 in Golden, Colorado. The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Friday it discovered emails pertinent to the closed investigation of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's private email server and are looking to see if they improperly contained classified information. Trump said "I think it's the biggest story since Watergate." (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump tweets debunked legend about US general

Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah addresses thousands of supporters who took to the streets of southern Beirut to denounce a film mocking Islam on September 17, 2012.

Hassan Nasrallah Fast Facts

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Far-right Australian senator slammed for burqa 'stunt'

Muslim pilgrims from all around the world circle around the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque, in the Saudi city of Mecca on September 14, 2016.
More than 1.8 million faithful from around the world have been attending the annual pilgrimage which officially ends on September 15. / AFP / AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia offers to pay expenses of Qatar's Hajj pilgrims, charter private jets

Rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump's conversion slams POTUS Charlottesville response

Five-time Grammy winner calls Pope Francis the 'Hip-Hop Pope'

Rapper slams 'Islamophobia' in clock arrest of Texas teen

Christian rocker Trey Pearson: Backing Donald Trump at odds with 'the politics of Jesus'

'The Hunt': 'Sacrament of Blood' trailer

Chicago rapper Sir the Baptist gets political: Donald Trump 'is the problem'

These retailers filed for bankruptcy this year

Firefighters work at the area where a tree fell down killing 11 people in Funchal on August 15, 2017.
At least 11 people were crushed to death today when a 200-year-old oak tree fell at a religious festival on the Portuguese island of Madeira, local media reported. / AFP PHOTO / Helder SANTOS (Photo credit should read HELDER SANTOS/AFP/Getty Images)

Falling tree kills 12 at festival

Picture shows the area affected by a tree fell that killed 11 people in Funchal on August 15, 2017.
At least 11 people were crushed to death today when a 200-year-old oak tree fell at a religious festival on the Portuguese island of Madeira, local media reported. / AFP PHOTO / Helder SANTOS (Photo credit should read HELDER SANTOS/AFP/Getty Images)

Falling tree kills 13 at Catholic festival in Portugal

Khan: These Nazis will not be accepted

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives at the Royal Malaysian Air Force base in Subang on August 8, 2017.
Tillerson arrived in Malaysia on August 8 following a brief stop in Bangkok after attending the 50th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional security forum in Manila. / AFP PHOTO / MANAN VATSYAYANA (Photo credit should read MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)

US slams China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia for religious repression

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By the numbers: 7 charts that explain hate groups in the United States

India-Pakistan tension remains 70 years later

Republican presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee fields questions at The Family Leadership Summit at Stephens Auditorium on July 18, 2015 in Ames, Iowa. According to the organizers the purpose of The Family Leadership Summit is to inspire, motivate, and educate conservatives.

Mike Huckabee Fast Facts

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Why athletes are getting more political in the age of Trump

People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP)

When is a crime a hate crime and when is it terrorism?

A vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, August 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them.

Violence erupts at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia