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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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Displaced Iraqi Christians sleep inside of Saint Joseph's church after having to flee their district on June 26, 2014 in Erbil, Iraq. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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The husband and daughters of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for "blasphemy," at their residence in Lahore, October 13, 2014 (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images).
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Iraqi Christians walk past a decorations displayed in commemoration of the Elevation of the Holy Cross festival on September 14, 2014, in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Supporters of Canadian-Pakistani cleric Tahir ul Qadri, listen to his speech during an anti-government protest in front of the Parliament in Islamabad on October 21, 2014. ( AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani women protest in Lahore on November 21, 2010 in support of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother given the death sentence. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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Malala Yousafzai waves to the crowd at a press conference at the Library of Birmingham after being announced as a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 10, 2014 in Birmingham, England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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The Central Council of Jews in Germany organized the demonstration after anti-Semitic incidents in the country occurring in the wake of the conflict in Gaza this summer, on September 14, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)
Commentary
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Islamic fighters from the Al-Nusra Front carry a banner of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque with the Arabic slogan: 'We fight in Syria... and our eyes are on Jerusalem' on July 28, 2014. (RAMI AL-SAYED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Sister Ann-Elisabeth prays in the Grotto of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, December 20, 2001. (David Silverman/Getty Images)
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Graffiti with the first letter of the world 'Nasara', the word used in the Koran for Christians, and 'Real estate property of the Islamic State (IS)' in Arabic, on a church in Mosul, July 26, 2014. (AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Lela Gilbert
Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
