Photo Slideshow: 2013 Faith and the Obama White House
President Obama and family are captured in photographs during moments of faith in 2013.
President Barack Obama visits Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, March 22, 2013. Standing with the President, from left, are: Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; Israeli President Shimon Peres; Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu; and Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate.
President Obama and family are captured in photographs during moments of faith in 2013.
Photos courtesy the White House Flickr stream
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President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, and their families attend an inaugural prayer service at St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2013. Photo by Pete Souza / courtesy The White House Flickr stream (http://flic.kr/p/dUYz34)
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama enter the Washington National Cathederal for the Inaugural Prayer Service on January 22, 2013. RNS photo by Donovan Marks/courtesy the Washington National Cathedral.
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden attend the inaugural National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 2013. Photo by Pete Souza / courtesy The White House Flickr stream (http://flic.kr/p/dUYxKv)
Clergy watch as the President’s motorcade prepares to depart the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the West Bank, March 22, 2013. Photo by Chuck Kennedy / courtesy The White House Flickr stream (http://flic.kr/p/eaou4Q)
President Barack Obama and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority talk following their tour of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the West Bank, March 22, 2013. Photo by Pete Souza / courtesy The White House Flickr stream (http://flic.kr/p/eahKUa)
President Barack Obama lights candles as he tours the crypt containing the birthplace of Jesus during his visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the West Bank, March 22, 2013. Photo by Pete Souza / courtesy The White House Flickr stream (http://flic.kr/p/eaoqhU)
President Barack Obama tours the crypt containing the birthplace of Jesus during his visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the West Bank, March 22, 2013. Photo by Pete Souza / courtesy The White House Flickr stream (http://flic.kr/p/eaoqff)
President Barack Obama visits Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, March 22, 2013. Standing with the President, from left, are: Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; Israeli President Shimon Peres; Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu; and Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama host a Passover Seder Dinner for family, staff and friends, in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House, March 25, 2013. Photo by Pete Souza / courtesy The White House Flickr stream (http://flic.kr/p/e6b4GJ)
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attend an interfaith prayer service dedicated to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, Mass. on April 18, 2013. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is seated at right.
President Barack Obama delivers remarks during an interfaith prayer service dedicated to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, Mass. on April 18, 2013.
First Lady Michelle Obama, along with daughters Sasha and Malia, listens to Foundation Director Uwe Neumarker during their visit to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2013. Sister-in-law Auma Obama, right, accompanies them during the tour.
President Barack Obama greets Archbishop Desmond Tutu as he arrives at the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre in Cape Town, South Africa on June 30, 2013. Photo courtesy of The White House/Pete Souza
Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden lay a wreath with Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, and Amb. Nancy Powell, left, at the Martyr’s Column at the Gandhi Smriti Museum in New Delhi, India on July 22, 2013.
President Barack Obama meets with faith leaders to discuss the anniversary of the March on Washington and how civil rights and equality are closely tied to voting rights and closing the gap on education, unemployment, and access to health care, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Aug. 26, 2013.
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughter Malia meet with Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban a year ago, in the Oval Office on Oct. 11, 2013.
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