Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (Getty Images)
Policemen stand guard while supporters of slain Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio pay their respects during an act organized by the Movimiento Construye party and friends at the Quito Exhibition Center in Quito on August 11, 2023. (Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images)
An A4 paper was seen held by a protester during the demonstration outside the Chinese embassy in London on December 5, 2022. (Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and sister Kim Yo Jong attend the Inter-Korean Summit at the Peace House on April 27, 2018, in Panmunjom, South Korea. (Pool via Getty Images)
A Taliban security personnel gestures as women stand in a queue outside the passport office in Herat on August 26, 2023. (Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)
The Israel Missile Defense Organization of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development and the US Missile Defense Agency completed a successful flight test campaign with the Arrow-3 Interceptor missile at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, on July 23, 2019. (Missile Defense Agency via DVIDS)