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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, speaks in Strasbourg, eastern France, on October 4, 2023. (Getty Images)
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People watch as they secure an area before handing over Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 15, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Policemen stand next to their cars in front of an apartment building in Södertälje, Sweden, on January 30, 2025, following the shooting of Koran burner Salwan Momika. (JONAS EKSTROMER/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Greek Catholic Cathedral of St. George, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on December 3, 2024. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Afghan women and children stand outside a primary healthcare center in Ghazni, Afghanistan, on February 2, 2025. (Mohammad Faisal Naweed/AFP via Getty Images)
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A police officer gestures in front of a propaganda billboard urging "the maintenance of rule of law in Xinjiang" in both Chinese and Uyghur languages in China's northwestern Xinjiang region on July 19, 2023. (Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images)
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French Resistance fighters sabotaging a railway in Saône-et-Loire in September 1944. (Roger Viollet via Getty Images)
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People attend the first Sunday mass in Aleppo, Syria, since the rebel forces deposed the Assad regime on December 15, 2024. (Burak Kara via Getty Images)
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A crucifix is pictured outside the Syriac Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Aleppo, Syria, on December 12, 2024. (Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images)
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This photo taken on January 15, 2024, shows a Chinese flag fluttering on a Christian church in Pingtan, China. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
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Pedestrians pass by a poster depicting French teacher Samuel Paty in Paris on November 3, 2020. (Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Nina Shea
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom
