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 Syrian flag flying in front of the dome of the Syrian Saint Sarkis Church for Armenian Orthodox in Damascus on January 6, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)
Egyptian Coptic Christians attend a memorial ceremony for relatives murdered by Islamic State group militants in Libya, on February 16, 2015, in the village of al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
People demonstrate outside the offices of the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on January 6, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (MOHAMMED WESAM/AFP/Getty Images)
A muslim man prays during a prayer session for murdered aid worker Alan Henning in Manchester Central Mosque in Manchester, north west England on October 4, 2014. (OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images)
People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers during a reporting trip to the Third Guard Division of the PLA on July 28, 2009 in Beijing, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)