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)
Minister of Economy of Israel Nir Barkat lays flowers at the cordoned-off crime scene in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025. (Luzia Geier/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Bride and groom Sharon and McVivien kneel as elders pray over them following their nuptials mass during their wedding ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya, on February 13, 2016. (Fredrik Lerneryd/AFP via Getty Images)
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)
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)
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)