Center for Religious Freedom

Egyptians hold a mass at Saint-Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo's al-Abbassiya district on February 17, 2015. (Mohamed Hossam/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

International Women's Day, 12 March 1977. SMH Picture by DAVID BARTHO (Fairfax Media/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)

Egyptian students who support the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes following a demonstration outside Cairo University on March 26, 2014. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

The Syrian flag flying in front of the dome of the Syrian Saint Sarkis Church for Armenian Orthodox in Damascus on January 6, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

Egyptian Coptic Christians attend a memorial ceremony for relatives murdered by Islamic State group militants in Libya, on February 16, 2015, in the village of al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)

An Iraqi Christian fleeing the violence in the towns of Qaraqush and Bartala prays at the Saint George church on July 1, 2014 in the Kurdish autonomous region's capital Arbil. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)

People demonstrate outside the offices of the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on January 6, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (MOHAMMED WESAM/AFP/Getty Images)

A catholic reads the Bible at the temporary Bailu Township Church on December 24, 2008 in Pengzhou of Sichuan Province, China. (China Photos/Getty Images)

The Jerusalem Old City is seen through barbed wire on November 10, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)