Center for Religious Freedom

Pope Francis meets with beneficiaries of charitable organizations at the headquarters of the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference on September 5, 2024, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Vatican Pool via Getty Images)

Cardinals attend the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on April 26, 2025, in Vatican City. (Dan Kitwood/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)

The Beaches Recreation Centre in the Canadian Federal Election in Toronto, April 21, 2025. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via 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)

Security forces reporting to Syria's transitional government patrol the streets of Dummar, during an operation to seize weapons and hunt down armed supporters of the ousted Assad leadership on January 15, 2025. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images)

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Policemen stand next to their cars in front of an apartment building in Södertälje, Sweden, on January 30, 2025, following the shooting of Koran burner Salwan Momika. (JONAS EKSTROMER/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

A police officer gestures in front of a propaganda billboard urging "the maintenance of rule of law in Xinjiang" in both Chinese and Uyghur languages in China's northwestern Xinjiang region on July 19, 2023. (Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images)

People bow as they visit statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang on February 16, 2024. (Photo by KIM Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images)

People attend the first Sunday mass in Aleppo, Syria, since the rebel forces deposed the Assad regime on December 15, 2024. (Burak Kara via Getty Images)

Uyghurs living in Turkey protest Wang Yi on July 26, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Hakan Akgun via Getty Images)