Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (Getty Images)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
Riot police charge toward protesters in a fume of tear gas on an express way at Causeway Bay district on August 4, 2019 in Hong Kong, China. (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
An armed member of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces secures a conference being held by the predominantly Shia Muslim Popular Mobilization Forces to honour Iranian fighters who died fighting the Islamic State. (Ameer Al Mohammedaw/Getty Images)
A mix of ethnic Uyghur and Han shopkeepers hold large wooden sticks as they are trained in security measures on June 27, 2017 next to the old town of Kashgar, in the far western Xinjiang province, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Vice President Mike Pence addresses delegates at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2019. Photo by Ralph Alswang/State Department/Public Domain.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers opening remarks during the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, at the Department of State, July 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Christians offering prayers for the departed souls of their loved ones on the occasion of All Souls Day, at a cemetery on November 2, 2016 in Bhopal, India. (Hindustan Times/Getty Images)