Both grew up in upper-middle-class homes and attended college-prep Christian schools.

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If anything, Francis' outreach to women, along with his emphasis on "reinvigorating the Christian faith" in parts of the world "where secularism has the upper hand" continues the tradition of Benedict and popes before him, said author and theologian Matthew Bunson, a senior fellow of the St.

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South Carolina Republicans went to the polls in drab, cold weather, with snow in the state's upper regions, where many of the state's more conservative, evangelical Christian voters live.

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Both Shia and Sunni voters largely backed respective Islamist parties, whose influence the king then diluted by filling the upper house of parliament, whose seats he appoints, with loyalist liberals, including a Christian and a Jew.

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Decisive government, he believes, is endangered by the confrontation between the lower and upper houses of parliament, the Bundestag and Bundesrat, which are ruled respectively by Mr Kohl's Christian Democratic conservatives and by opposition Social Democrats.

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