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A nun reacts to the scene of a bomb explosion at the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church on December 11, 2016, in Cairo's Abbasiya neighbourhood. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqi Christians attend a Christmas mass at the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Deliverance/Salvation (Sayidat al-Nejat), in central Baghdad, on December 25, 2015. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, pray during a Christmas mass in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq on December 24, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

Asia Bibi (Wikimedia Commons)

Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. (Chris Tobin)

Syrian internally displaced people walk in the Atme camp, along the Turkish border in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, on March 19, 2013. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)

World leaders and dignitaries attend the funeral of the former Israeli leader Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl Cemetery on September 30, 2016 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via Getty Images)

Asia Bibi (Wikimedia Commons)

Palestinians gather at a check point on the outskirts of Bethlehem (Photo by MUSA AL-SHAER/AFP/Getty Images)

A French police officer stands guard by Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray's city hall following a hostage-taking at a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, northern France, on July 26, 2016 that left the priest dead. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/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)