{"id":19679,"date":"2021-04-23T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T00:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19679"},"modified":"2021-04-23T16:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T23:43:40","slug":"report-5-2-billion-people-face-very-severe-violations-of-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/report-5-2-billion-people-face-very-severe-violations-of-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: 5.2 Billion People Face \u2018Very Severe Violations of Religious Freedom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.<\/a> –\u00a0 April 20,2021<\/p>\n

Nearly one third of the world\u2019s countries, where two thirds of the world\u2019s population live, violate religious freedom, the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Christians are the most persecuted group in the world, according to ACN\u2019s Religious Freedom in the World Report 2021<\/em>, an 818-page\u00a0compendium<\/a> of the state of religious freedom and persecution in the world today.<\/p>\n

Persecution on the grounds of religious belief is a growing global phenomenon, the biennial report declares, and religious freedom violations have accelerated and expanded to the point where \u201csystematic and egregious attacks are coming from governments, lynching mobs, as well as international terror groups,\u201d such as Boko Haram or the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

The report found the populations of 62 countries out of a total of 196 face \u201cvery severe violations of religious freedom,\u201d adding that the number of people living in these countries \u201cis close to 5.2 billion, as the worst offenders include some of the most populous nations in the world (China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria).\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, during the past two years since the publication of ACN\u2019s last report, \u201cthere has been a significant increase in the severity of religiously motivated persecution and oppression which is the principal category of concern,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n

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Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. –\u00a0 April 20,2021 Nearly one third of the world\u2019s countries, where two thirds of the world\u2019s population live, violate religious freedom, the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported Tuesday. Christians are the most persecuted group in the world, according to ACN\u2019s Religious Freedom in the World Report … Continue reading Report: 5.2 Billion People Face \u2018Very Severe Violations of Religious Freedom\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[15739,1007,175,177,125,229,241,3443],"class_list":["post-19679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-acn","tag-boko-haram","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-church","tag-islamic-state","tag-persecution","tag-religious-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-57p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19681,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions\/19681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}