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    2. Harassment of religious groups hits highest point since 2007

    The analysis of 2016 sources found reports of religiously motivated harassment โ€“ whether perpetrated by governments or social groups โ€“ in the vast majority of the worldโ€™s countries (187, up from 169 in 2015). This marks the biggest number of countries where harassment was observed against religious groups since Pew Research Center began analyzing restrictions […]

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    The estimates presented in this report supersede all previously published Pew Research Center estimates. Although this report draws largely on U.S. Census Bureau data, our estimates will not generally agree exactly with those published by the Census Bureau because we include adjustments for survey omissions and corrections for various types of survey errors and anomalies. […]

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    1. Number of countries with โ€˜very highโ€™ government restrictions on religion at highest level since 2007

    Countries with the most extensive government restrictions on religion Most countries around the world have some form of restrictions on religion โ€“ whether it is through laws that limit actions like public preaching or conversion, or actions that can include detaining, displacing or assaulting members of religious groups. A subset of countries, however, has particularly […]

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