He invited Rick Warren, a popular pastor, to say a few words at his inauguration.
Who is the chief justice of the United States, who swore in President Obama at his inauguration?
At his inauguration last week in the national sports stadium, President Koroma did several laps of honour in an open-topped car.
This is about a president-elect, who just came off a bruising 21-month campaign, exercising his prerogative to choose whoever he wants to deliver the blessing at his inauguration.
The Obama administration has weighed in on behalf of the challengers, following President Barack Obama's declaration of support for same-sex marriage last year and his invocation of gay rights at his inauguration in January.
At his inauguration in 1829, to make the statement that the government now belonged to the people, the White House was thrown open to everyone, with frontiersmen standing elbow to elbow with prominent citizens.
Even as Obama takes fire from liberal friends on the left, Warren is taking his share of criticism from conservative supporters on the right who can't believe he is even associating with Obama, let alone appearing at his inauguration.
Capriles spoke at his own inauguration, as governor of the state of Miranda, a post he was elected to following his presidential defeat.
At the time of his inauguration, Korea was plunging headlong into a financial crisis.
In 2009, American cellist Yo Yo Ma mimed his performance at President Obama's first inauguration, saying the freezing temperatures and wind might have affected his instrument live.
He repeated those words at Monday's public inauguration, placing his left hand on Bibles owned by legendary American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and President Abraham Lincoln.
He gained attention that year with his invocation at President Barack Obama's inauguration that year and comments he made in the aftermath of California's Proposition 8, which overturned gay marriage.
Within weeks of his inauguration he created a commission to look at gaming as part of the economic-recovery plan for the state.
The US president rounded off his second and last inauguration day with the troops, at the commander-in-chief's ball.
Sri Lanka's main lawyers association has boycotted the inauguration of the new chief justice in protest at the impeachment of his predecessor.
Warren, who founded Saddleback with his wife 33 years ago, gave the invocation at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and penned "The Purpose-Driven Life, " a Christian self-help guide that became a mainstream best-seller.
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