Center for Religious Freedom

Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, attend a mass on May 31, 2015 in Arbil, Iraq. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

Displaced Assyrians at the Ibrahim-al Khalil Melkite Greek Catholic church in the Jaramana district on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 1, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

An Egyptian Christian mourns following a New Year's Eve car bomb attack on the Coptic church in Alexandria in which 21 people were killed, on January 2, 2011 outside the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. State Department, September 12, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Armenians at the genocide monument to their kin killed by Ottoman Turks during World War I in Yerevan late in on April 23, 2012. (KAREN MINASYAN/AFP/Getty Images)