Center for Religious Freedom

Newly appointed Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, then Archbishop of Hong Kong, receives the cardinalitial ring from Pope Benedict XVI in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City on March 25, 2006. (Franco Origlia via Getty Images)

A protest against Chinese treatment of the Uyghur people outside the White House on July 10, 2009. (Malcolm Brown via Flickr)

Jakarta, Indonesia. (Stock Photo)

Joe Biden on September 1, 2022, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (The White House via Flickr)

Patriarchate of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East in Erbil, Iran, on September 16, 2022. (Tony Kiriakidis via Flickr)

Iranians gather to celebrate the new year at Saint Sarkis Cathedral on January 1, 2022, in Tehran, Iran. (Meghdad Madadi via ATPImages/Getty Images)

Party flags of Bharatiya Janta Party outside of Mumbai on April 5, 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Cardinal Joseph Zen holds a mass at the Holy Cross Church on May 24, 2022, in Hong Kong, China. (Louise Delmotte via Getty Images)

Vladimir Putin on in the Kremlin on November 2, 2022. (Kremlin)

St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria, on August 26, 2018. (Wikimedia Commons)