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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)
Religious Freedom
Religious Freedom
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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
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Church of St. Baudille on February 21, 2019 in Nîmes, Provence, France
Experts
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Nina Shea
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom
