Center for Religious Freedom

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)

An Iraqi Christian fleeing the violence in the towns of Qaraqush and Bartala prays at the Saint George church on July 1, 2014 in the Kurdish autonomous region's capital Arbil. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)

People demonstrate outside the offices of the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on January 6, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (MOHAMMED WESAM/AFP/Getty Images)

A catholic reads the Bible at the temporary Bailu Township Church on December 24, 2008 in Pengzhou of Sichuan Province, China. (China Photos/Getty Images)

The Jerusalem Old City is seen through barbed wire on November 10, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

Senior fellows Husain Haqqani and Nina Shea with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, January 13, 2015

People hold signs reading 'I am Charlie' during a rally in Monaco on January 8, 2015, a day after a deadly attack on the Paris headquarters of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. (VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqi Christians light candles inside a shrine in the grounds of Mazar Mar Eillia (Mar Elia) Catholic Church on December 12, 2014 in Erbil, Iraq. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)