Center for Religious Freedom

Iraqi Christians at St. Joseph church in Arbil, Iraq, on April 12, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

Clerics sit next to a screen showing Dutch priest Frans van der Lugt during a remembrance ceremony for the dead priest in the Sint Nicolaasbasiliek in Amsterdam, on April 11, 2014. (REMKO DE WAAL/AFP/Getty Images)

A South Sudanese woman in Juba on July 7, 2011 as part of preparations for independence celebrations when South Sudan secedes from the north. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

A poster showing Imam Abubakar Shekau, leader of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, declared wanted by the Nigerian military. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)

Activists march on May 15, 2014 in the streets of Kenya's capital Nairobi demanding the release of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from schools in nothern Nigeria by muslim extremist group Boko-haram.(TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)