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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/mass630.gifNew Year's Day Mass is celebrated at the Church of St Thérèse in Mount Merrion, Dublin. Present, clockwise left to right, are Papal Nuncio to Ireland Archbishop Charles Brown; former taoiseach Liam Cosgrave; President Michael D Higgins and Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin. Photographs: Niall Carson/PA Wire
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/sternsinger630.jpgGerman carol singers, called Sternsinger, dressed as the three kings, Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar, attend Mass ahead of their annual charity donation collection drive in Berlin, Germany. The children walk house-to-house in the days around January 6th, singing carols and collecting money for needy children around the world. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/galejador630.jpgA “Galejador” fires his musket during La Festa del Pi (Festival of the Pine) in the village of Centelles in Barcelona, Spain. Early in the morning men and women carry muskets as they walk into the forest to chop down a pine tree, load it on an ox cart and take it to the church in the village. There it is decorated with five bouquets of apples and wafers and hung inside a church until January 6th. The tradition has been documented since 1751 and it is believed its origins are related to the trees and the pagan worship of fertilisation related the winter solstice. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/pinckney630.gifRev Clementa Pinckney speaks at the Watch Night service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. New Year's Day 2013 was the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which declared free all slaves in the rebellious states of the American Civil War. The Watch Night tradition at black churches goes back to "Freedom's Eve" on New Year's Eve at the close of 1862. Photograph: Randall Hill /Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/cowboychurch630.jpgPreacher Steve Gilbertson conducts a church service at the Buffalo Chip saloon in Cave Creek, Arizona, US. The Ecclesia church, housed a the Buffalo Chip, is sometimes called the cowboy church for its location at the local saloon. Photograph: David Kadlubowski/New York Times
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/chavezz630.jpgA supporter of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez holds a picture of him at a Mass to pray for Chavez's health in Caracas. Chavez has suffered more complications following complex cancer surgery in Cuba and remains in a "delicate" condition, the Venezuelan vice-president said. Photograph: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
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Prayers of the faithful
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/coptic630.jpgMen pray at a damaged Coptic Christian church after an explosion in the town of Dafniya, west of Misrata, western Libya. Photograph: Reuters
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Prayers of the faithful
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/alazhar630.jpgAn Egyptian holds a banner reading "God will take revenge on Bashar al-Assad, People wanted to open Tahrir Square" after Friday prayers led by Egyptian Cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, at Al Azhar mosque in old Cairo. Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
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Prayers of the faithful
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/dhaka630.jpgMembers of Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat, a radical Islamist group, seek a declaration that the Ahmadiyya Muslim community are non-Muslims in front of the national mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/bhutto630.jpgSupporters of Pakistan's late former prime minister Benazir Bhutto read the Koran, to mark the anniversary of her death, at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi near Islamabad. Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack after an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi in December 2007, weeks after she returned to Pakistan after years in self-imposed exile. Photograph: Faisal Mahmood/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/arbainkerbala630.jpgShia Muslim pilgrims take part in a ceremony to mark Arbain in Kerbala, about 80km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Photograph: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/arbainislamabad630.jpgA police officer watches as Shia Muslim men take part in self-flagellation rituals during the religious ceremony of Arbain in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. Pakistan. Photograph: Faisal Mahmood/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/yoga630.jpgUltra-Orthodox Jewish men participate in yoga together at a studio in Ramat Beit Shemesh, some 20km (12 miles) from Jerusalem. Almost a dozen devout Jewish men meet weekly at the studio, which offers gender-segregated classes in accordance with Jewish beliefs. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/rabbi630.jpgNew Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is announced at St John's Synagogue, London, UK, in late December. The former chief Rabbi of Ireland succeeds Lord Jonathan Sacks. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/rowan630.gifArchbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams passes his crozier to Rev Dr Robert Willis, Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, to mark the end of his role of as Archbishop of Canterbury during his final Sung Eucharist service at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
