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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Biden Meets With Faith Leaders On Gun Violence Issue
CNN reports that Vice President Joe Biden and his gun violence committee held an unannounced meeting last night with 12 national faith leaders representing Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical and Pentecostal Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Hindu communities. Topics discussed included protection of religious buildings and religious intolerance. Biden asked the faith leaders to use their moral voices to find solutions to the gun violence problem. This was part of a series of meetings with various groups that have an interest in firearms and gun violence issues. (ABC News).