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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim (2nd L) visits the Virgin Mary statue at the entrance at his family's homwtwon Jezzine in southern Lebanon on March 15, 2010. Slim, who has knocked Bill Gates from the top of the Forbes list of the world's billionaires, is on a visit to the country of his...

A man adjusts the apparel of a member of the Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno brotherhood in charge of carrying the statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary, before a training run for the upcoming Holy Week processions in Ronda, southern Spain, late March 19, 2010. Hundreds of Easter...

Members of the Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno brotherhood, who carry the structures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, carry a weighted structure to train for the upcoming Holy Week processions in Ronda, in southern Spain, late March 19, 2010. Hundreds of Easter processions will take place...

Members of the Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno brotherhood, who carry the structures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, get ready to lift up a weighted structure to train for the upcoming Holy Week processions in Ronda, in southern Spain, late March 19, 2010. Hundreds of Easter processions...

A statue of Virgin Mary sits amid the destruction left by a major earthquake in La Pezca March 1, 2010. Chile's government scrambled on Monday to provide aid to thousands of homeless people in coastal towns devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunamis, as 10,000 troops patrolled to...

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Images of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary sit on the rubble of a house as a machine clears debris in Iloca, Chile, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit central Chile last Feb. 27, causing widespread damage.

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Protesters display placards and the image of the Virgin Mary during a rally at the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Monday Mar.8, 2010 in Manila to ask the bishops to "bless the condoms as a conciliatory gesture to unite for reproductive health and women's rights"...

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An image of the the Virgin Mary lays among earthquake rubble in Caleta Tumbes, Chile, Friday, March 5, 2010. The fishing village was damaged by waves following an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile on Feb. 27, causing widespread damage.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - FEBRUARY 18: A young man holds up a small statue of the Virgin Mary and Child that he pulled out of a collapsed building while searching for salvagable goods and bodies February 18, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. More than a month after the 7.0 earthquake that...

A mosaic of the Virgin Mary is displayed during its unveiling ceremony in Kiev January 13, 2010. The artwork, created by Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas, is made from 15,000 painted Easter eggs.

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WENZHOU, CHINA - DECEMBER 24: A girl dressed as the Virgin Mary waits to attends a Christmas Eve mass at a church on December 24, 2009 in Wezhou of Zhejiang Province, China. Christmas is not a public holiday in China, but it is celebrated across the country as more and more western...

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LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 02: Ally Dickaty from the Virgin Mary's attends the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour Awards at the Park Lane Hotel on November 2, 2009 in London, England.

A statue of the Virgin Mary is seen amongst the rubble of the earthquake-destroyed Sister of Charity Chapel in Padang in Indonesia's West Sumatra province October 3, 2009.

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Pope Benedict XVI, framed by the statue of the Virgin Mary, holds the pastoral staff as he celebrates a mass in St. Peter's Basilica, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, on the occasion of the World Day of the Sick, the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes.

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A broken statue of the Virgin Mary is seen in the church of the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12.

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Priests carry a statue of the Virgin Mary during a procession on the last day of the Second National Congress of the Clergy Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, in suburban Pasay City south of Manila, Philippines. The five-day congress was aimed strengthening the vows of priests in the only...

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This Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 picture shows a 44 by 22-foot mural of the Virgin Mary by artists El Mac and Retna entitled "Ave Maria" on the east side of the Guthrie Bicycle building in Logan, Utah. For one grueling week of wind, rain and snow in November 2009, the two used 80 cans of...

A worshipper prays in the Grotto, where Christians believe Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, following a service for Armenian Christmas in the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 18, 2010.

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Red paint was splashed near to the statue of Virgin Mary at St. Elizabeth church in Kota Tinggi of Johor State, Malaysia, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Vandals splashed a church with paint as burglars ransacked a law firm defending Christians in their fight to use the word "Allah," adding to...

Splashes of paint are seen near the statue of Virgin Mary at St. Elizabeth Catholic church in Kota Tinggi nearly 400 km (250 miles) south of Kuala Lumpur, January 14, 2010. Arsonists in Malaysia struck at churches and a convent school since Friday amid rising tensions between majority...

A woman walks past a mosaic of the Virgin Mary during its unveiling ceremony in Kiev January 13, 2010. The artwork, created by Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas, is made from 15,000 painted Easter eggs.

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal blesses a statue of the baby Jesus inside in the Grotto where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, following the Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 25, 2009.

Catholic priests pray at a statue of the baby Jesus inside in the Grotto where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, following the Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 25, 2009.

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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal blesses a statue of the baby Jesus inside in the Grotto where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, following the Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, early Friday, Dec. 25, 2009...

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Catholic priests pray at a statue of the baby Jesus inside in the Grotto where Christians believe Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, following the Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, early Friday, Dec. 25, 2009.