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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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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)
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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)
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A woman kneels to place a candle outside the Tree of Life Synagogue after a shooting there left 11 people dead in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018. (Getty Images)
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Trucks carrying armed police officers run towards the residential area of Uighur people on July 8, 2009 in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, China. (The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images)
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Hon. Elan S. Carr, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism at the U.S. Department of State, delivers remarks at Hudson's release of its National Survey of Anti-Semitism in America, June 5th, 2019.
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Chinese Catholics hold candles at a mass on Holy Saturday during Easter celebrations at the government sanctioned West Beijing Catholic Church on April 15, 2017 in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Experts
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Nina Shea
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom
