President Barack Obama talks with Pope Francis in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. (Tony Gentile/Pool Photo via AP)
A group of migrants waits in line to be escorted to a train after crossing thee border from Croatia near the village of Zakany, Hungary, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. Deeply divided European Union leaders have been called to an emergency summit to seek long-term responses to the continent’s ballooning crisis of refugees and migrants, a historic challenge EU President Donald Tusk said the bloc has failed dismally to meet. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
An Afghan boy kisses his brother as they exit from a metro station at Victoria square, where many stay temporarily before trying to continue their trip to more prosperous northern European countries, in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. The 28-nation EU took a modest step toward dealing with the issue by agreeing to relocate 120,000 asylum-seekers to ease the strain on Greece and Italy, which are on the front line of the migrant flood. (AP Photo/Fotis Plegas G.)
Norway’s Queen Sonja, center, listens to Van Gogh Museum director Axel Ruger, right, and Oslo’s Munch Museum director Stein Olav Henrichsen, second right, as they pass Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom”, rear, when officially opening the exhibit “Van Gogh : Munch” at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. The exhibit opens to the public on Sept. 25 and runs till Jan. 17, 2016, and aims at showing the parallels between two iconic artists, Dutch Vincent van Gogh and Norwegian Edvard Munch. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
T.J. Hitchings, of Plainsboro, N.J., looks at a portrait of former New York Yankees hall of fame catcher Yogi Berra at the Yogi Berra Museum, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, in Little Falls, N.J. Berra died Tuesday at the age of 90. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Nuns sit in their pews while waiting for Pope Francis to arrive inside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
A Muslim pilgrim prays on a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015 during the hajj pilgrimage. Mount Arafat, marked by a white pillar, is where Islam’s Prophet Muhammad is believed to have delivered his last sermon to tens of thousands of followers some 1,400 years ago, calling on Muslims to unite. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)
Members of the U.S. Naval Academy rest on the ground while waiting for Pope Francis to arrive for a Mass, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Believers pray inside the newly restored Moscow Cathedral Mosque in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. The mosque was demolished and rebuilt to be one of the biggest mosques in the country with room for 10,000 believers. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas joined the re-opening ceremony of the mosque. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Migrants are reflected in the window of a car as volunteers distribute clothes at Victoria square, where many stay temporarily before trying to continue their trip to more prosperous northern European countries, in Athens on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. The 28-nation EU took a modest step toward dealing with the issue by agreeing to relocate 120,000 asylum-seekers to ease the strain on Greece and Italy, which are on the front line of the migrant flood. (AP Photo/Fotis Plegas G.)
Bahrainis head out for a boat ride on the Persian Gulf with children holding baskets of sprouting greens to throw in the water, a traditional way Bahraini Muslims celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, in Malkiya, Bahrain. Traditionally, children plant their baskets several days ahead of the holiday, then throw them into the sea as a small sacrifice of the plants they tended. Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, to commemorate the prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son for God. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
Two boys swim in the Paung Laung River early Wednesday morning, Sept 23, 2015, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
Policemen prepare security gates before the beginning of the re-opening ceremony of the newly restored Moscow Cathedral Mosque in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. The mosque was demolished and rebuilt to be one of the biggest mosques in the country with a room for 10,000 believers. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will join the re-opening ceremony of the mosque later in the day. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)
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