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"Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, is known to be decidedly non-religious. In an interview this weekend, he broke from his usual tune with an uncharacteristic mention of God. \nIn an interview with UK newspaper The Telegraph, Gates addressed the consequences of his foundation's work in Pakistan. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been working for the past few years to eradicate polio, which only remains in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Pakistan, some health workers have paid with their lives for distributing the vaccine, because Islamist groups have spread a belief that the vaccine is a Western evil.\n\"It\u2019s not going to stop us succeeding,\" Gates says. \"It does force us to sit down with the Pakistan government to renew their commitments, see what they\u2019re going to do in security and make changes to protect the women who are doing God's work and getting out to these children and delivering the vaccine.\"\nThe Microsoft co-founder rarely speaks in religious terms and previous discussion of his own beliefs have danced around the topic of God. His wife Melinda is a Roman Catholic, though she advocates for contraception in many cases against the church's teachings.\nSEE ALSO: Gateses Suggest 5 Tech-Savvy Ways to Give This Holiday Season\n\nIn a 1995 interview with PBS's David Frost, he said he believed in the values derived from religion, though not the ritual itself.\n\"I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis,\" Gates said. \"The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in. There's a lot of merit in the moral aspects of religion. I think it can have a very, very positive impact.\"\nThe following year, he told Walter Isaacson for Time magazine that he found organized religion to be a waste of time.\n\"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient,\" he said. \"There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.\"\nAre we witnessing a spiritual change in Gates or is \"God's work\" just an idiom the Microsoft co-founder has embraced? Let us know what you think in the comments. \nPhoto via Matthew Peyton / Getty Images Entertainment"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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