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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
Religious Freedom
Religious Freedom
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A woman holds a sign during a protest over the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini outside the Iranian Consulate on October 7, 2022, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Chris McGrath via Getty images)
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Ruins of Church of the Ascension in Lukianivka, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine on April 10, 2022. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Cardinal Joseph Zen holds a mass at the Holy Cross Church on May 24, 2022, in Hong Kong, China. (Loise Delmotte/Getty Images)
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Cardinal Joseph Zen preaches a sermon during a mass at the Holy Cross Church on May 24, 2022, in Hong Kong, China. (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
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Salman Rushdie at the Blue Sofa at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 12, 2017. (Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)
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A Taliban soldier the first anniversary of the US withdrawal from the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2022. (Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Mourners react during a funeral for victims killed in a fire at a Coptic church in Giza on August 14, 2022. (Mahmoud Elkhwas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Demonstrators protest Chinese human rights abuses committed against Uyghurs at a rally in Istanbul, Turkey, on December 20, 2019. (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images)
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Salman Rushdie does a reading in New York City on April 15, 2016. (Al Pereira/Getty Images)
Experts
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Lela Gilbert
Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
