Center for Religious Freedom

Catholics pray during Sunday mass at Holy Family Minor Basilica in Nairobi, Kenya on March 22, 2020. (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a speech on U.S. Africa Policy at the Economic Community of West African States in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 19, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghans make their way the road to the military entrance of the airport for evacuations, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021 (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Taliban fighters sit over a vehicle on a street in Laghman province on August 15, 2021 (AFP via Getty Images)

Relatives of abducted girls after the releasing 82 of school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok back in 2014, at Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria on May 7, 2017. (Photo by Sodiq Adelakun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

From left to right, Rabbi David Saperstein, former Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom under President Obama, Pak Yaha, Gen. Sec. of Nahdlatul Ulama, Imam Talib, Bishop Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher and Hudson Senior Fellow Paul Marshall

Xi Jinping delivers a speech at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC in Beijing (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Persecuted Iranian Christian Mary Mohammadi

Released students gather at the Government House with other students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina State, Nigeria upon their release on December 18, 2020 (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the faithful at the weekly Muslim Friday prayers at Tehran University on June 19, 2009 (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)

Chinese Catholic worshippers wait to take communion at the Palm Sunday Mass during the Easter Holy Week at an "underground" or "unofficial" church on April 9, 2017 near Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Egyptian anti-government protesters celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 11, 2011 after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after three decades of autocratic rule and handed power to a junta of senior military commanders (Getty Images)