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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)
Religious Freedom
Religious Freedom
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Sun shines on The U.S. Supreme Court building on July 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
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Asia Bibi (EWTN News Nightly video screenshot)
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The Dalai Lama and Walter Russell Mead in India, August 2019. PHOTO: KALDEN LODOE
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Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei leads the Eid al-Fitr Prayer at Grand Prayer Grounds in Tehran, Iran on June 26, 2017. (Getty Images)
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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)
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Christian villagers from Passo and Muslim villagers from Batumerah celebrate religious festivals together. (Photo courtesy of the chief of Batumerah)
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A group of British soldiers in the court of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 1917 in Jerusalem. (Getty Images)
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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)
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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.
Experts
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Nina Shea
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom
