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)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
The graffiti tagged on the wall of a house in the Iraqi city of Mosul, July 26, 2014. It reads in Arabic : 'Real estate property of the Islamic State (IS)'. (AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi Christian children, who fled the violence in the Nineveh province, attend a mass with their mothers at a chuch in Dekwaneh, east of the Lebanese capital Beirut on March 21, 2015. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
Police officers and rescue workers stand near a van that ploughed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice on July 14, 2016. (VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) conducts a vertical replenishment at sea in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility, South China Sea, July 8, 2012. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Declan Barnes/Released)
Supporters wave the flag of Lebanon and the Shiite movement Hezbollah alongside a poster of former Hezbollah leader Abbas al-Mussawi during a rally in Beirut on February 16, 2016. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)