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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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Egyptian anti-government protesters celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 11, 2011 after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after three decades of autocratic rule and handed power to a junta of senior military commanders (Getty Images)
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The eternal flame burns at the Armenian genocide memorial on April 24, 2015 in Yerevan, Armenia (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
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In this photograph taken on February 23, 2020, a young member of the Assyrian Christian community walks with insense during a Sunday mass at the More Benham Kirklar Church in Mardin, south-eastern Turkey (Photo by BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, at the State Department in Washington, DC on March 30, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Supporters of China's Muslim Uighur minority wave flags of East Turkestan and hold placards as they gather at the Beyazid square on October 1, 2020 during a demonstration to protest China's Uighur treatment in Istanbul. (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty I
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Uyghurs of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) hold a rally outside the US State Department calling on US President Joe Biden to increase pressure on the Chinese Communist Party, on February 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by ALEX EDE
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Pope Francis is welcomed by a dove's flight as he arrives in Najaf for a meeting with Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Al-Husayni Al-Sistani on March 06, 2021 in Najaf, Iraq. (Vatican Pool via Getty Images)
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Chinese Christians pray and wait in line to take communion during a Christmas Mass at a Catholic Church on December 24, 2020 in Beijing, China
Experts
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Nina Shea
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom
