Center for Religious Freedom

Catholics gather for a mass at the Church of the Assumption in Lagos on April 21, 2025. (Getty Images)

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An Israeli flag flutters on the window of a building in northern Israel on November 28, 2024. (Getty Images)

Erika Kirk speaks during the memorial service for her husband Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium on September 21, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. (Getty Images)

Outside view of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, on September 27, 2023. (Getty Images)

The exterior of the Greek Orthodox monastery of Saint Catherine is seen on October 19, 2018, next to Mount Sinai in Egypt. (Getty Images)

Egyptian Coptic Christians attend resurrection mass at the Monastery of Saint Simon Al-Kharaz during Holy Saturday services on April 19, 2025, in Cairo, Egypt. (Ahmad Hasaballah via Getty Images)

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A prison van carrying Jimmy Lai arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for the closing arguments in his national security trial in Hong Kong on August 18, 2025. (Man Hei Leung via Getty Images)

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (not pictured) hold a joint press conference following their meeting at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on June 27, 2025. (Bay Ismoyo via Getty Images)

People walk past a video screen showing a speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on March 3, 2023. (Greg Baker via Getty Images)

An aerial view shows a mass funeral ceremony being held at the Holy Cross Church in the Al-Qassaa neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on June 24, 2025. (Izettin Kasim via Getty Images)