Center for Religious Freedom

A woman looks at wooden crosses bearing names of victims at Freedom-Corner in Uhuru Park in Nairobi on April 8, 2015. (SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images)

An Egyptian Coptic boy looks down from the roof of the Bishoy Monastery in Beheira province, 150 kms northwest of Cairo. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

A group of Egyptians stage demonstration against Egypt's el-Sisi government at Cairo University in Giza, Egypt on April 19, 2015. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the Ethiopian National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 24, 2015. (Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Egyptian Coptic Christians hold a cross high in Cairo's Tahrir square on February 06, 2011. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

Egyptians hold a mass at Saint-Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo's al-Abbassiya district on February 17, 2015. (Mohamed Hossam/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

International Women's Day, 12 March 1977. SMH Picture by DAVID BARTHO (Fairfax Media/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)

Egyptian students who support the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes following a demonstration outside Cairo University on March 26, 2014. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

The Syrian flag flying in front of the dome of the Syrian Saint Sarkis Church for Armenian Orthodox in Damascus on January 6, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

Egyptian Coptic Christians attend a memorial ceremony for relatives murdered by Islamic State group militants in Libya, on February 16, 2015, in the village of al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)