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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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Worshippers take part in a fitness session after prayer in a mosque of the Bagcilar district in Istanbul on February 8, 2024. (Yasin Akgul via Getty Images)
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Pope Francis waves to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square during his Sunday Angelus blessing on the World Youth Day on November 24, 2024, in Vatican City. (Getty Images)
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Jimmy Lai Chee-ying arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region before a hearing in his case on May 18, 2020, in Hong Kong, China. (Li Zhihua/China News Service via Getty Images)
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Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, speaks in Strasbourg, eastern France, on October 4, 2023. (Getty Images)
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People watch as they secure an area before handing over Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 15, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Policemen stand next to their cars in front of an apartment building in Södertälje, Sweden, on January 30, 2025, following the shooting of Koran burner Salwan Momika. (JONAS EKSTROMER/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Greek Catholic Cathedral of St. George, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on December 3, 2024. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Afghan women and children stand outside a primary healthcare center in Ghazni, Afghanistan, on February 2, 2025. (Mohammad Faisal Naweed/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Nina Shea
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom
