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Iranian workers walk past a destroyed residential building due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)
Religious Freedom
Religious Freedom
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the Ethiopian National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 24, 2015. (Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Commentary
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Egyptian Coptic Christians hold a cross high in Cairo's Tahrir square on February 06, 2011. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptians hold a mass at Saint-Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo's al-Abbassiya district on February 17, 2015. (Mohamed Hossam/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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The Syrian flag flying in front of the dome of the Syrian Saint Sarkis Church for Armenian Orthodox in Damascus on January 6, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptian Coptic Christians attend a memorial ceremony for relatives murdered by Islamic State group militants in Libya, on February 16, 2015, in the village of al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Iraqi Christian fleeing the violence in the towns of Qaraqush and Bartala prays at the Saint George church on July 1, 2014 in the Kurdish autonomous region's capital Arbil. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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People demonstrate outside the offices of the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on January 6, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (MOHAMMED WESAM/AFP/Getty Images)
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A catholic reads the Bible at the temporary Bailu Township Church on December 24, 2008 in Pengzhou of Sichuan Province, China. (China Photos/Getty Images)
Experts
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Nina Shea
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom
