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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, at the State Department in Washington, DC on March 30, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

he American flag flies at half-staff at the White House in honor of the victims of Monday's mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, on March 23, 2021 in Washington, DC (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Pope Francis is welcomed by a dove's flight as he arrives in Najaf for a meeting with Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Al-Husayni Al-Sistani on March 06, 2021 in Najaf, Iraq. (Vatican Pool via Getty Images)

Chinese Christians pray and wait in line to take communion during a Christmas Mass at a Catholic Church on December 24, 2020 in Beijing, China

Church of St. Baudille on February 21, 2019 in Nîmes, Provence, France

Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church, also known as Abu Serga, Also known as Cavern Church. Coptic Cairo. Egypt. 4th century

Coptic Christians pray during a protest in Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian protests.