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Reaching Out to the Hill’s Many Faiths

Numerous Outlets for Religious Expression Offered

On a recent Friday afternoon, dozens of Muslims met in the basement of the Capitol to hear a short sermon from a local imam, and then, facing in the direction of Mecca, prostrated themselves in prayer. About an hour later that same day, a handful of Jews gathered in a House Foreign Affairs Committee room to pore over passages from the Torah. The following Monday, a half-dozen evangelicals attended a Christian world view seminar in another room just down the hall from where the Muslims had met.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.
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