{"id":19305,"date":"2021-01-01T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19305"},"modified":"2021-01-01T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:13:56","slug":"christians-were-persecuted-in-a-record-145-countries-in-2018-new-pew-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/christians-were-persecuted-in-a-record-145-countries-in-2018-new-pew-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians Were Persecuted in a Record 145 Countries in 2018, New Pew Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Foust<\/a><\/strong> – November 12, 2020<\/p>\n

Christians are persecuted in more countries than any other religious group in the world, followed closely by Muslims, according to a new Pew Research Center study that also found government restrictions of religions are at an all-time high.<\/p>\n

The lengthy Pew report<\/a> was released this week and found that in 2018 \u2013 the most recent year studied by Pew \u2013 government limits on religion continued to climb, contributing to a \u201csubstantial rise in government restrictions on religion\u201d compared to 2007, the first year Pew conducted the study. Pew defines restrictions as \u201claws, policies and actions by officials that impinge on religious beliefs and practices.\u201d<\/p>\n

The worldwide Government Restrictions Index score in 2018 was 2.9, compared to 1.8 in 2007 (The score involves a 10-point scale based on 20 indicators).<\/p>\n

China is the world\u2019s most restrictive country toward religion with the highest score (9.3) of all 198 countries and territories studied. Iran (8.5) is second, followed by Malaysia and the Maldives (8.2 each) and Tajikistan and Turkmenistan (7.9 each).<\/p>\n

Most of the world\u2019s religious persecution takes place in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as in the Middle East and North Africa, Pew said.<\/p>\n

Christians and Muslims in 2018 received the highest level of persecution, which Pew calls \u201charassment.\u201d Harassment, Pew said, \u201ccan include a wide range of actions \u2013 from verbal abuse to physical violence and killings \u2013 motivated at least in part by the target\u2019s religious identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christians were persecuted in 145 countries<\/a> in 2018 \u2013 a record \u2013 while Muslims were persecuted in 139 countries. Jews experienced persecution in a total of 88 countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs in previous years, Christians and Muslims experienced harassment in more countries than any other religious groups in 2018. This pattern has remained consistent since the study began in 2007,\u201d Pew said in its analysis.<\/p>\n

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