Center for Religious Freedom

An Iraqi security officer stands guard outside the Church of the Virgin Mary in Bartala, June 15, 2012. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)

Egyptian Coptic Christians attend a Friday Mass at the Virgin Mary church on May 16, 2014 in Cairo's Road al-Farag district. (VIRGINIE NGUYEN HOANG/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqi priest Monsignor Pios Cacha celebrating a mass at the Mar Yussef Church in central Baghdad, February 22, 2013. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

An Iraqi Christian family live in a tent at a displacement camp for Christians after having to flee their district on June 26, 2014 in Erbil, Iraq.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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)