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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
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Cardinal Joseph Zen speaks to attendees at the Kowloon Union Church in Hong Kong, to pray for nine pro-democracy activists. (Yan Zhao/AFP via Getty Images)
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MP of the Finland's Christian Democrats Paivi Rasanen holds a bible as she speaks to media ahead of a court session at the Helsinki District Court in Helsinki, Finland on January 24, 2022. (Photo by Antti Aimo-Koivisto/AFP via Getty Images)
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Thousands take part in a 'silent scream' demonstration against China's persecution of Uighurs in Xinjiang, at Fatih Mosque on December 20, 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Onur Dogman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Catholics pray during Sunday mass at Holy Family Minor Basilica in Nairobi, Kenya on March 22, 2020. (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a speech on U.S. Africa Policy at the Economic Community of West African States in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 19, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ablikim and Ayshem Turkel hold Nury Turkel in 1971, shortly after Nury and his mother were released from a Chinese "reeducation camp." (Courtesy of Nury Turkel)
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Demonstrators protest China’s genocidal campaign against the Uyghur people outside the Chinese Embassy in London, England, on January 19, 2020. (David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Afghans make their way the road to the military entrance of the airport for evacuations, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021 (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)
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Taliban fighters sit over a vehicle on a street in Laghman province on August 15, 2021 (AFP via Getty Images)
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A man prays at Mary Grotto at St Leo Church, Ikeja, Lagos. Members of St. Leo Catholic Church, Ikaja in Lagos Nigeria, dramatize the Station of the Cross, suffering and death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, April 14 2017 (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto
Experts
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Nina Shea
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom
